Megan

10.2.24 – Baby steps on Compensation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met from 10am-2pm on Thursday, September 26 in Cascade Hall. This session was particularly action-packed, as a total of 11 counterproposals were exchanged following a brief presentation from a representative from OSU’s finance and administration office. This presentation, which offered a positive overview of financial

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9.16.24 – Admin continues to stall on compensation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met 9am-5pm on Thursday, September 5. The administration team presented Benefits and Leaves. We presented Health, Safety, Facilities, and Work Site, Promotion and/or Tenure, and Periodic Review of Faculty.     We also met 9am-4:30pm on Wednesday, September 11. The administration team presented Position Descriptions

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7.30.24 – Asking admin to try again on compensation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met on Thursday, July 25 in front of a standing room only crowd of faculty observers. During the 2.5 hour session we passed four counterproposals to the administration team: Compensation, Academic Freedom and Shared Governance, Academic Classification and Rank, and a proposed letter of agreement

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7.24.24 – Bargaining Update: Baby steps

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met at 9am-noon on Wednesday, July 10 and 9am-1pm on Tuesday, July 16. In the first session, we passed 3 counterproposals to the administration team: Grievance Procedure, Union Rights, and Non-Discrimination and Respectful Workplace. The administration team passed 3 counterproposals: Personnel Records, Dues Deduction, and

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6.14.24 Prosperity Widely Shared . . . But Not With Faculty

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

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