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President’s Column: Our Annual Member Meeting: A Big Deal

by José Padin, President The annual member meeting of Oregon’s American Association of University Professors — it is coming up on April 23rd-- is a big deal to us.   Big deal. Because AAUP-Oregon is the member-led, member-driven organization of faculty and academic professionals in Oregon. At the annual meeting, elected member-leaders report back on the progress made on the strategic priorities given us by the base at the prior meeting. Two top priorities decided by the member base last year were: (1) faculty and student relations with new Boards of Trustees, (2) defending our rights to organize against anti-academic…

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PSU: bargaining intensifies

by Pam Miller, President, PSU-AAUP Greetings everyone! I hope this message finds you all well and that winter term will get wrapped up shortly. PSU-AAUP went into affinity bargaining on Thursday, March 10. We had already bargained 10 hours in the same week in order to be ready for this day. We made sure our costing model worked, that we had all of our interests on the table, and that both teams felt prepared to finish economics in 8 hours. Affinity bargaining is part of Interest Based Bargaining (IBB) and involves both teams putting up proposals on the walls (with…

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