cba2024

11.13.24 – Admin Didn’t Do Homework… Needs Improvement

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the Administration team met for a day-long session (9:00-5:00) on Thursday, October 31 in Cascade Hall. In anticipation of the long session, your team came prepared with three articles and two letters of agreement. The Administration team arrived with no counter proposals and needed the first hour and […]

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10.28.24 – What do we want?  Prosperity Widely Shared!  When do we want it?  Now!

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Your UAOSU bargaining team and the administration team met on Tuesday, October 15.  During the 3 hour session we passed seven counterproposals and counter proposed a Letter of Agreement (LOA) to the administration team: Term of the Agreement, Compensation, Appointment & Reappointment, Leaves, Benefits, Periodic Review of Faculty, Promotion and Tenure, and an

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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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