General Membership Meeting
April 6, 2017. 5-7pm. Gerlinger lounger. Dinner and drinks provided. Stay tuned for the agenda.
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Statement on Salary Equity
A fair and equitable wage for all is a fundamental principle of our union, and we reaffirm that principle in light of the gender discrimination lawsuit filed by our colleague Jennifer Freyd.
Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
The First Feekin Speaker Series event! Jonathan Rosenblum will discuss how Seattle’s immigrant workers won the fight for $15 in his newly released book:Beyond $15: Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement.Wednesday, March 22nd University of Oregon Knight Law School, Room 175 4:00 – 4:30 Reception 4:30 – 5:45 Presentation and Discussion Jonathan Rosenblum has been a community and labor organizer for more than thirty years. His new book provides an inspirational blueprint for a powerful, all-inclusive labor movement and is a call for workers to reclaim their power in the new economy.
Win a Trip to the Science March in Washington DC
United Academics, in conjunction with the American Federation of Teachers, will sponsor one member to attend the March for Science in Washington, DC on April 22, 2017. Applicants should write a short statement (300 words or fewer) stating why they want to attend the DC march and how they plan to advocate for public funding of science research and scientists beyond the march in April. We will pay for your flight and a hotel for two nights. To win, you must be a member of United Academics in good standing during the academic year 2016-7. All categories of faculty are…
Bargaining for social justice
As more and more college campuses focus on equity, diversity and inclusion, graduate employees at the University of Michigan are breaking new ground with a logical premise: People working for social justice should be paid for that work.
Faculty: You may be eligible for student debt forgiveness!
Do you have outstanding student loan debt? Have you cosigned a student loan for a family member? We want to help you reduce that debt. United Academics will hold an interactive Student Debt Clinic in March.
Executive Council, Representative Assembly, and Delegate Election Results
The Elections Committee is happy to announce the results of that election, and to congratulate everyone who has volunteered to serve.
Repudiating Frank Stahl’s anti-Semitic Letter to the R-G
This is one way anti-Semitism works: depicting Jews as conspirators so devious that they leave no tracks and assigning to them blame for all of society’s ills, including those perpetrated against Jews themselves.
Call for Moratorium on Workload Revisions
Over the course of the last few weeks, many faculty across campus are being informed of potential revisions to their unit’s Professional Responsibilities/Workload policies. In some cases, work that had previously earned a course release will no longer do so. In other cases, workloads may be “rebalanced” in order to increase course load at the expense of scholarship or service responsibilities. Our collective bargaining agreement has two mechanisms for revising workloads policies after they have been approved by the Provost. Faculty can suggest changes to the workload through their internal governance committees and/or faculty meetings. These changes would need to…