Adoption of the Agenda: Agenda was adopted after addition of an item (5a) on a Legislative post-mortem.
June meeting schedule: Meetings this summer will be on June 8 and 22, July 6 and 20.
UFF/USF Chapter Meeting
May 4, 2007
In attendance: J. Martin, A. Shapiro, S. Permuth, M. Klisch, B. Welker, S. Dorn, , S. RamÃrez Wohlmuth, G. McColm, R. Weatherford, K. de la Peña McCook, C. Dee, J. Yoon, C. Dunkley, E. Mitchell, P. Terry, B. Frank
The chapter’s May 17 e-mail newsletter from the chapter is now available online. Topics include a report of union-administration discussions about protecting e-mail, Weingarten rights, and the differential tuition bill in front of Governor Crist.
The May 3 e-mail newsletter of the chapter is available online. Topics include faculty preventing themselves from appearing inadvertently as a star on Youtube and national trends in contingent academic labor.
Today at a 12:30 phone conference, the USF Board of Trustees finished the ratification of the reopener, after the April 20 ratification by the bargaining unit.
On Monday, the Florida legislative leaders finalized the budget, where it now sits during a mandatory 72-hour cooling-off period before the legislature approves it tomorrow. Unfortunately, the legislature did not approve the governor’s recommendation for a 2.44% increase to the base budget for state and university employees but instead approved a one-time $1000 bonus to all state and university employees who have satisfactory performance and are employed for the several months before the bonus on November 1 this year.
This bonus may benefit a few categories of employees—those who leave state or university employment in the few months after November 1 as well as those whose salaries are well under $40,000 (whose percentage increase would have been far less than $1000) and who expect to resign or retire within a year or so. But a bonus doesn’t go into base pay, so long-term employees will be hurt. If the governor vetoes other measures that would improve university funding in the next year, the situation is not going to be pretty, and that’s true on several levels.
The next USF-UFF collective bargaining session is May 11, 2007, 3-5 pm, in EDU 258 & EDU 261.
UFF/USF Chapter Meeting
April 20, 2007
In attendance: J. Martin, A. Shapiro, S. Permuth, M. Klisch, B. Welker, J. Noonan, S. Dorn, M. Karlins, S. RamÃrez Wohlmuth, S. Greenbaum, S. Ariew, J. Langford-Johnson, G. Milton, C. Green, C. Ruiz, K. Mukherjee, H. Vanden, B. Ingalls, S. Fogel, N. Guenther Discenza, H. Blymiller, F. Ottanelli, G. Benadusi, S. Ickes, H. R. Kaplan