On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically, as I understand it (utterly new to this and given the union's
> agreement not to negotiate in public), we're a campus with a serious surplus
> (and a ridiculous new commitment to a new med school, with the associated
> raft of overpaid folks to set it up), a faculty that makes 13% less than the
> national average for similar institutions, and a growing student body and
> the admin still wants zero raises for the next three years, a dramatic
> increase in health care contributions, to chop summer teaching payments in
> half (which, since chairs are paid in the summer as if they were teaching
> classes, will lead to many chairs simply resigning and only scary careerists
> with administrative goals willing to take the spot), to shift chairs from
> faculty in the union to administrators not eligible, and to decrease campus
> contributions to retirement. There's also been an utter reversal of every
> President for years' assertion that campuses and faculty are a special
> varieties of state institutions and employees such that legislation limiting
> domestic partner benefits, various hiring preferences etc., do not apply to
> a position which argues universities and faculty are the same as all other
> state employees. I don't think this covers it but it gives you a flavor…
> and they've not come off of one of these positions for five months. The
> whole package the union asked for comes to 1/2 of 1% of the total university
> budget.
> It is not clear if this all comes from the Uni Pres, the Board of Trustees,
> the Governor, the tenor of the times or all of 'em…
> A
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What they said.
>>
>> Strategically, it sounds like they're trying to force the FA into the job
>> action and betting that opinion will go their way. What are the sticking
>> points?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:16 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> > All the best. Let us know what if anything we can do to support you.
>> >
>> > JOanna
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Alan Rudy" <alan.rudy at gmail.com>
>> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 8:10:08 AM
>> > Subject: [lbo-talk] seems 99% sure
>> >
>> > that the Central Michigan University Faculty Association will be
>> engaging
>> > in
>> > a job action starting Monday.
>> > The FA, I'm told the oldest faculty union in the country, hasn't had a
>> > contract for five months, the
>> > administration hasn't moved an inch since negotiations began, "fact
>> > finding"
>> > has gotten negotiations
>> > nowhere and the administration negotiated in public - explicitly against
>> > the
>> > agreed upon rules - and so,
>> > on the first day of teaching of my first semester at CMU as what they
>> call
>> > regular faculty, we're almost
>> > assuredly going to begin picketing.
>> > A
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> Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
> Central Michigan University
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