Submitted by bquirk on December 10, 2019 - 12:42pm
Submitted by bquirk on October 30, 2019 - 8:11am
The Rocky Bargaining Picture Show
When UC management wants to go backward with major takeaways (such as eliminating all rights to reappointment for pre-continuing faculty and making it easier to lay off continuing faculty), bargaining feels like being stuck in a time warp. With camp and flair, UCSC activists showed admin that they can’t just cast us off into another dimension. More than 200 UC-AFT members, undergraduate students, graduate students, and tenure-track faculty allies put on a Rocky Horror-themed rally with the message that we love teaching UC students too much to let their education get lost in time, lost in space and meaning.
Submitted by bquirk on October 9, 2019 - 7:40pm
Victory for Andrew… Every Lecturer Deserves this Benefit
Negotiations at UCI began with a warm and heartfelt statement of gratitude from UCI lecturer, Andrew Tonkovich, who had just heard the day before the UC management granted his full paid medical leave for Fall quarter. We made progress delivering our initial proposals on Continuing Appointment Review Process, Merit Review Process and a new Review Criteria article. UC managers proposed drastic reduction in the length of notice in the case of layoff.
Submitted by bquirk on October 3, 2019 - 8:44am
Faculty equity...Who needs it? UC negotiators do not think we do!
Our team came to Berkeley prepared with member testimonials, a research based presentation on the efficacy of student evaluations in measuring teaching effectiveness, with detailed questions about UC's proposals and with proposals of our own. Read the full update for all the important details from this two-day session.
Submitted by bquirk on August 7, 2019 - 5:55pm
Powerful Member Testimonials: “The Workload is Too Damn High”
The UCLA bargaining session began, once again, with deeply personal and powerful member testimonials on negative impacts to our members, our families and to our careers from excessive workload, disrespectful hiring and reappointment practices, underemployment, and systematic, forced turnover.
Submitted by bquirk on July 29, 2019 - 5:48pm
UCOP ignores need for adequate office space and student confidentiality
UC continued to roll out take away proposals, while UC-AFT pressed on with principled and well researched proposals for Parental and Academic Leave.
Submitted by bquirk on June 22, 2019 - 7:48am
We Packed the Room: Amazing show of support from faculty, students & librarians!
Nearly 100 members and supporters attended bargaining and our rally in Berkeley. It became clear in this session that UC-AFT and UC have radically different visions for the future of Pre-Continuing Appointment and Reappointment process and rights.
Submitted by bquirk on June 7, 2019 - 3:38pm
Members Show Management What We’re Fighting for!
UC-AFT Faculty continued bargaining on June 4 at UC Riverside. Session #2 covered Instructional Support, Non-Discrimination in Employment and Professional Concerns, Meetings and Programs. Members from UCLA, Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Riverside all gave great testimony on Instructional Support issues.
Submitted by bquirk on May 13, 2019 - 4:29pm
First Victory: Keeping bargaining sessions open and transparent!
The UC-AFT bargaining team started the session by winning several concessions from Management regarding the ground rules governing bargaining sessions. Prior to the Bargaining kick-off, UCOP circulated a proposed list of highly restrictive ground rules -- most notably a rule that would have closed bargaining sessions and prevented our members from attending.
Submitted by bquirk on April 9, 2019 - 5:36pm
UC-AFT faculty leaders met with the UC Office of the President on January 30, 2019, at UC Irvine. Our goal was to set the tone for the bargaining to come and, as our current contract requires, share “issues of concern” that we plan to negotiate. More than 30 lecturers packed the room to bear witness to how UC management’s current practices harm education for UC students, and UC-AFT President, Mia McIver delivered a powerful opening statement.
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