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As we reported earlier, the UFF-FIU and the FIU Administration have concluded negotiations on a three-year contract (2015-2018). We will be scheduling information and ratification meetings in January. Here is a summary of the negotiations:<\/p>\n
1% retention raise to the base effective January 16, 2016 for all employees employed before July 1, 2015.<\/p>\n
1% of 2014-2015 base salary payroll for Merit raise to the base, to be decided by departmental merit criteria, with minimum amount to be $750 to each eligible faculty member, effective January 16, 2016.<\/p>\n
One-child policy ended; 26 weeks of Parental Leave may be divided over 2 children, as long as no more than 2 semesters total are affected.<\/p>\n
Status quo, with language rewritten only for clarification and additional protections of faculty. Language retained: \u201cNo employee shall be required to teach a course as an online course…\u201d<\/p>\n
Each department\/unit shall decide whether the candidates in their discipline will have access to the external reviewers\u2019 letters, after a democratic vote of the eligible tenured and tenure-earning faculty and according to the department\/unit procedures for changing T&P policies.<\/p>\n
All members of the bargaining unit will now have promotion procedures, including Research Associates and Instructional Specialists<\/p>\n
Faculty who do not have the terminal degree but are enrolled in a program to earn it will now have tuition reimbursement at FIU rates for up to 6 credits per semester.<\/p>\n
Overload pay must be at least $1,000 per credit.<\/p>\n
Spouses may now take courses with tuition waived without having to enroll in a degree-seeking program.<\/p>\n
The time limit to file grievances and complaints has been extended from 30 to 45 days.<\/p>\n
Domestic partners of same or opposite sex are now recognized in the agreement, and employees
\nhave Bereavement Leave at the death of a partner.<\/p>\n
Policies may not be changed without collective bargaining.<\/p>\n
Days when the university is closed may not be counted as days missed in deciding job abandonment.<\/p>\n
Minor changes made at UFF request.<\/p>\n
Copies of the Collective Bargaining Agreement will only be available online (no hard copies),
\nbut will be in searchable format.<\/p>\n
None.<\/p>\n
Summer pay for tuition-generating activities like thesis and dissertation direction, not currently compensated.<\/p>\n
Additional benefits for domestic partners.<\/p>\n
Increase in overload pay minimum.<\/p>\n
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Collective Bargaining Update As we reported earlier, the UFF-FIU and the FIU Administration have concluded negotiations on a three-year contract (2015-2018). We will be scheduling information and ratification meetings in January. Here is a summary of the negotiations: Rights, Benefits, Protections Strengthened Salaries 1% retention raise to the base effective January 16, 2016 for all employees employed before July 1, 2015. 1% of 2014-2015 base salary payroll for Merit raise to the base, to\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bargaining","tag-bargaining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}