BArgaining Session Updates

3-17-2023 - In our first bargaining session with the administration the EMUFT Bargaining Team had an open discussion about appointments. The conversation was collegial and encouraging.  Our Team will be preparing for a further discussion about appointments over the next two weeks and will be ready to review any proposals from the administration. Our next bargaining session is set for Friday, March 31. 

Bargaining Kick-Off

Our Bargaining Kick-off Rally was a success! mote than 25 EMUFT members and supporters braved the weather and gathered to show their support of our Bargaining Team.

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  • Compensation
  • Workload/Appointments/Promotions
  • Parking and Benefits
  • Shared Governance
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FTL Compensation
  • Competitive base salary
  • Competitive annual increases
PTL Compensation
  • Salary increases across the board
  • Compensation for Course Prep
  • Compensation for "other" activities
FTL WORKLOAD​
  • FTL workload needs to go down without salary reductions.
  • If not a ”true” reduction, service release for FTL who already do the work.
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
  • Protect and increase FTL Positions
  • Create a pathway to full-time
  • Protecting customary PTL loads
  • Promotion opportunities for FTLs & PTLs
  • Preventing departments from hiring new people to teach classes that existing lecturers can teach
PARKING 
  • No charge for parking!
FTL BENEFITS
  • Legal requirement will ensure that FTLs will likely be offered what Clericals and AAUP got in the recent contract fight
  • Paid FMLA at least at the same rate as AAUP
PTL BENEFITS
  • Employer Retirement Contributions
  • Access to health care will be tricky
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Lecturers Recognized as “Faculty”
  • Participation in the Faculty Senate
  • Participation on University-wide Committees
  • Recognition Awards for Lecturers

In Search of Professor Precarious
​Screening and Roundtable Discussion

The economic survey last year and the bargaining survey this year have highlighted the challenges many of you face in your daily lives. Low wages, lack of advancement, lack of access to health care for PTLs, and the insecurity of continued employment are the top concerns of part-time lecturers at Eastern Michigan University.  

While these concerns are omnipresent for us, the world around us thinks that we must be 'bringing home the big bucks' because - after all - we are 'professors'. 
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Invite your students and AAUP colleagues to a screening of the acclaimed documentary "In Search of Professor Precarious: A documentary that lifts the curtain on Higher Education dirty little secret". 

Join us on April 5, 2023 from 6-8 pm in the Student Center Auditorium
Following the screening, we will host a roundtable facilitated by some of your colleagues to demystify what it means to be a lecturer. LBC credits will available for students.

BE part of the team

Unifying our two contracts is a massive undertaking and we need to assemble a support community that will help with research, planning, organizing, actions, note-taking, observing, and serving on the actual bargaining team. There are a variety of ways to get involved with a wide range of possible time commitments. You can contribute to our efforts in person or behind the scenes, depending on your preferences and comfort level. We need you and your talents! Take a moment to indicate what support you would be willing to lend to shape the best possible new contract. CLICK HERE

RALLY MATERIALS

Have you wanted to help out with bargaining but were not sure where to begin?

We need rally signs and other materials and will be making them on March 14 from 2 to 5 pm. 

Join your fellow lectures in the EMUFT Office - 110 King Hall

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