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The Fall term General Membership Meeting (GMM) is this Thursday, 5-7pm in Gerlinger Lounge. Dinner and drinks will be available at 5:00, business begins at 5:30. If you can’t join in person, you can Zoom in here. In addition to updates on our efforts to push back against layoffs and the work units should be doing to revise Review and Promotion policies, much of the conversation will focus on current threats to higher education and what we are doing (and should be doing) as a union to push back. Please join us for this important conversation! Important Reminders Open enrollment…

TL;DR:  United Academics’ Politics Committee has been working tirelessly to meet with elected leaders, strengthen coalitions, and craft an Oregon Compact on Higher Education with a positive vision for higher education in the state. Help amplify these efforts by: Signing Higher Education Labor United’s No Loyalty Oaths in Higher Ed Signing the AAUP’s Statement  We Stand for Education and Against the Trump Higher Education Compacts Signing the petition against cuts to librarians and library staff Signing the petition to save the UO Forensics program There is much work to be done. Reach out to info@uauoregon.org to see how you can put…

Hello! My name is Kate Mills and this is my first year serving as president of your union, United Academics of the University of Oregon. As the seasons change and the academic year comes to its official start, I want to take a moment to share how excited I am to be your colleague here at the University of Oregon. We begin this academic year as an incredibly strong union that has repeatedly demonstrated collective care and support for each other. Shortly after 14 months of bargaining to secure our current contract, faculty continued to show up for each other…

We’re reaching out to you today with an urgent request: If you received a layoff notice, please let us know as soon as possible by emailing info@uauoregon.org. There are two reasons why we need to know: first, administration has not informed our union of layoffs in advance; and second, if we are to file a grievance in your defense, we must do so within a very short period of time. It is therefore crucial that anyone who is laid off inform the union as quickly as possible. Our collective efforts in recent weeks were successful in staving off the closure…

You have probably read the administration’s communication today that announced tenure-related cuts will not be on the table for the upcoming year, and that there will be overall fewer cuts to current workers and academic programs than we previously expected. While we were glad to hear that the administration is finally entertaining logical and humane strategies to mitigate their projected budget deficit—such as hiring freezes for currently vacant positions—we are still very upset to hear that Career faculty, classified staff colleagues, and other workers are still under threat. We will continue working with faculty who are likely to be affected…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Thursday, September 4, 2025   Contact: Kristy Hammond, UA Staff; Chris Sinclair, UA Communications VP Phone: (541) 636-4714  Email: info@uauoregon.org ; sinclair@uauoregon.org    Oregon Legislators Express Alarm About UO Leaders’ Planned Cuts, UO Senate Prepares for Possible “No-Confidence” Vote in President Scholz Amid a public outrage over planned cuts at the University of Oregon, Oregon state leaders and the UO Senate have issued letters rebuking the administration’s plans for program eliminations and faculty layoffs. In a public letter to President Karl Scholz, Senator Floyd Prozanski, Senator James Manning, Speaker of the House Julie Fahey, Representative Lisa Fragala,…

Fellow union members, As you know, The Scholz/Moffitt administration plans to send rushed layoff announcements sometime during the week of September 8. We need YOU to take several actions THIS WEEK to push back against the administration’s disastrous plans. Urgent, Time-Sensitive Actions for This Week: Send out mass faculty Canvas Announcements on Thurs, Aug 28 at 12pm Circulate our our mass petition and show up to deliver in person to leaders at Johnson Hall on Fri, Aug 29 at 10am Write your UO Senator and zoom into the emergency open Senate meeting on Fri, Aug 29 at 12pm To ensure…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Wednesday, August 27, 2025   Contact: Kristy Hammond, UA Staff; Chris Sinclair, UA Communications VP Phone: (541) 636-4714 Email: info@uauoregon.org ; sinclair@uauoregon.org    Faculty Union to Deliver Public Petition to UO Leaders on August 29, Local and National Organizations Respond to Plan for Cuts   According to an August 18 email sent by President Scholz and Provost Long, internal decisions about planned program cuts and faculty layoffs at the University of Oregon may be made as early as August 29, with layoff notices issued the week of September 8. At the same time, the United Academics (faculty…

On Friday, August 22, United Academics filed a grievance asserting that the administration’s announced plan to eliminate academic programs and terminate the faculty housed in those programs violates our Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The grievance seeks as a remedy that any program cuts and associated termination notices that the administration attempts to implement via Article 25 of the CBA be invalidated, resulting in full restoration of any impacted programs and revocation of all termination notices. If the grievance is denied, United Academics fully intends to escalate the dispute to arbitration. Furthermore, if the administration moves forward with its announced termination…