Category Archives: Faculty Posts

Posts by faculty who are not on the executive committee, and who are or are not union members.

A letter of support and solidarity from a Union member

Our colleague Jim Costanzo has asked me to circulate his comments… ______ Kye, I appreciate all that you, the negotiating team and other officers have done to negotiate and ratify the contract. Pratt Institute is at a crossroads and the changes and acrimony that you mentioned go beyond the Union. The Master Academic Plan has [...]
1 Comment | By sparerg | May 25th, 2008

Follow-up on May 8 Union Meeting รขโ‚ฌโ€œ Admin Imposing a Contract if MOU is Not Ratified

Ric Brown asked (and I believe others similarly concurred) that I follow-up by providing my understanding of the statute governing negotiations, in particular the claim and concern that the administration would or could impose a contract on the union in the event that the MOU is not ratified by its membership. Section 8 (a) [...]
Add a comment | By jennylee | May 8th, 2008

Proposed Removal of Fringe Benefit in Article 28.5

Another proposed removal from the Faculty Contract is the provision for faculty housing. Giving up this long-standing fringe benefit, I understand, is a significant conciliation by the union. I have two questions: One, what did the union gain in negotiations, in return for giving up faculty housing? Two, is the turning over of this real estate to [...]
1 Comment | By jennylee | May 4th, 2008

Wasted Posts

I have been posting comments earlier this week on what I thought was the union site becasue I have posted to that site in the past. <http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/mb/ufct1460>. I never received a notice that the union was using a new site with a completely new login requirement. I discovered this site only be reading someone's post to [...]
Add a comment | By rick | May 4th, 2008

May 1st Meeting, Questions

Post The May 1st meeting unfortunately left me with more questions than answers.  In part one could blame the format of the meeting, where 75% of the meeting was used up hearing what the Union Officers did during negotiations and how they interpreted the content of the changes.  All of this would have been well and [...]
8 Comments | By ifromboluti | May 3rd, 2008