Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met on Tuesday, June 25th from 9 am to 3:30 pm in Cascades Hall 20. During the 6.5 hours, observers witnessed a flurry of proposals exchanged, weighty discussions, and the signing of 3 Tentative Agreements (TA). Your team passed Separability, Management Rights, Totality of Agreement, Personnel Records, […]
7.8.24 – Slow progress… help us make more! Read More »
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met on Tuesday, June 18th from 12pm to 3pm in Cascades Hall 143. The administration team didn’t pass a proposal. Your team passed union rights and promotion and/or tenure. The two sides further discussed the rationale behind the administration’s paltry compensation proposal from their package
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 9:30am to 1:30pm in Cascades Hall 143. The administration passed a “package” of 5 Articles (Compensation, Benefits, Leaves, Research Support & Copyright, and Term of Agreement) and a counterproposal to our Letter of Agreement on Support for Caregivers. Collectively, they exhibit a shocking
6.14.24 Prosperity Widely Shared . . . But Not With Faculty Read More »
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met at 9am on Thursday, May 30 at the LaSells Stewart Center. We passed 2 counterproposals to the administration team: Periodic Review of Faculty and Discipline and Termination. The administration team passed 3 counterproposals to us: Academic Freedom (which we proposed as Academic Freedom and
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met on Wednesday, May 15 from 9am to 12pm in Cascades Hall. We passed two proposals to the administration team and they passed two proposals to us. UPCOMING SESSIONS Use the links below to add these to your calendar. Please note that the administration
05.21.24 – Trying to get admin to work with us Read More »
Dear Oregon State University community, Earlier this week, student activists began an extended protest demonstration by establishing an encampment on the Memorial Union quad. Now that an encampment is underway, I strongly urge Oregon State University’s administration to support and protect the exercise of free speech and academic freedom on campus in no uncertain
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met at 9 am on Wednesday, May 8 in Cascade Hall. UAOSU passed 1 counter proposal (Health, Safety, Facilities, and Work Site), and the administration team returned 3 counter proposals (Discipline and Termination, Union Rights, Periodic Review of Faculty.) How is it going,
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Dear Colleagues, If you’ve been following contract negotiations you may recall that we worked with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to conduct a financial analysis of OSU in preparation for our contract negotiations. Prior to putting forward our Compensation proposal at the March 15th bargaining session (read our full update here) we
04.28.24 – Save the date – Analysis of the Financial State of OSU Read More »
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 9am until almost 1pm on Wednesday, April 17th at the LaSells Stewart Center. Nearly the whole session centered on negotiating a Letter of Agreement (LOA) on eliminating the requirement for external review letters in promotion cases for non-professorial fixed-term faculty. Your UAOSU team
04.23.24 – Ongoing negotiations around external letters for NTT faculty Read More »
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met at 9am on Wednesday, April 11 in Cascade Hall. The administration team passed counterproposals on Dues Deduction, Non-Discrimination (which we have proposed as Non-Discrimination and Respectful Workplace) and Grievance Procedure. The UAOSU team passed counterproposals on Periodic Review of Faculty and Discipline &
04.16.24 – Bargaining Update: Generative AI, Grievances & Termination, PROFs, and more Read More »
