Showing posts with label union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label union. Show all posts
01 May 2016

Faculty Union Success

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Well. After a nail-biter of a day, this evening, NTFC Local 6546 tentatively agreed to a full contract with the UIUC administration. Furt...
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29 April 2016

Also: Vuvuzelas (Can We Get Some by Monday?)

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Day 2 of NTFC Local 6546's second strike.   (Read about Day 1 with backstory here .) It's the fourth day we've set up and m...
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28 April 2016

Inside Illinois? A House Divided Against Itself

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Updating with my thumbs from the picket line: the Provost's CORRECT email is feser@illinois.edu. Day 1 of NTFC Local 6546's second...
27 April 2016

Reasons Why You Should Support Striking NTTs

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This evening members of NTFC Local 6546, the union representing non-tenure-track faculty at the U of Illinois, voted overwhelmingly in fav...
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Let's Review: Faculty Working Conditions are Student Learning Conditions, Unless You're Downstate

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Current state of play at the University of Illinois mediation with NTFC Local 6546 (NTT faculty), according to an email to the union members...

Want a Fair Contract? STFU

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It's an interesting bargaining strategy. First, Int. Provost Feser explained that we can gain shared governance through shared governanc...

Who's Sharing the Governance of What, Exactly?

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From the transcript of of Interim Provost Feser's remarks in this morning's bargaining session: "there are a lot of things i ...

How Is this Mediation Session Different from All Other Mediation Sessions?

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This blog post is certainly different from all other blog posts. I'm typing it with my thumbs on my cell phone, using a colleague's ...
23 April 2016

Today's Koan: "More than Half a Day or Less"

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A half-hour after the two-day NTFC Local 6546 strike ended at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on April 20, all members o...

The Kids Are Alright

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During two days of marching around the English Building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and making a lot of noise, one...
20 April 2016

The "What Words Mean" Debate Just Leveled Up; or, Who is the University?

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The NTFC Local 6546 two-day strike ended at this afternoon at 5pm.   The following email arrived at 5:30. There are some things that U of I...
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19 April 2016

I Do Not Think the Word "Discussion" Means What You...Are We Seriously Here Again?

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Two MassMails from the Interim Chancellor in one day.   The second came while I was walking the picket line, so I didn't get to read it...

NTTs on Strike (Links from 4/19)

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We just finished day 1 of a two-day strike.  Here's what it looked like. The building we were picketing, emptied by our labor action...

I Do Not Think "Work with" Means What You Think It Means, Chancellor

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" Thank you for your patience as we continue to work with the union negotiators to reach an agreement." These words are from Int...
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16 April 2016

Emailing My Students about the Strike, with Links (Updated 4/19)

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UPDATE 4/20: Here are links from Day 1 of the 2-day strike. UPDATE 4/19: Email from Chancellor Wilson to the students  (4/19) Stude...

I Do Not Think "Key" Means What You Think It Means, Provost.

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If you're non-tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois, you got an email from the Provost on Friday, with the subject line, ...