Category Archives: Meetings/Events

Factual Information only concerning dates, times, and places of meetings and events.

Rally to Support LIU Faculty, Monday, 9/12, 3-5

Dear UFCT Member: As you’ve probably heard, our fellow Brooklyn faculty colleagues at LIU are on strike. Calling a strike is never a cavalier move, or is it a stunt; but only called for when management chooses to be completely intractable with respect to collective bargaining. The LIU faculty union had been negotiating for a [...]
Comments Off | By trotsky | September 11th, 2011

Christian Parenti on Climate Change, Sept. 26, 6:30

Christian Parenti on Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence Special Event sponsored by the Pratt Faculty Union (UFCT 1460) Monday, September 26, 2011 6:30 Location TBA Please join the Pratt Faculty Union (UFCT 1460) for a special presentation by Christian Parenti, investigative journalist, contributing editor at The Nation, Puffin Foundation [...]
Comments Off | By trotsky | September 5th, 2011

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING, APRIL 12, FINAL SLATE OF DEMANDS

Dear UFCT Dues Paying Member:  As a reminder, a final General Membership Meeting and ‘send-off’ (for negotiations), is scheduled for this: Tuesday, 4/12th, from 12:30-2PM, in the Alumni Reading Room, 3rd floor, Library (sorry, no food is allowed in the ARR.)  The UFCT’s issue proposals for our forthcoming spring-summer contract negotiations w/the Pratt Administration are attached for [...]
Comments Off | By trotsky | April 9th, 2011

Monday, April 4: Union Solidarity at Pratt

Monday, April 4:  Union Solidarity at Pratt ————————- WORKERS’ RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS! National Day of Union Solidarity on the Pratt Campus Please Join Us For A Lunchtime Roundtable Discussion Monday, April 4, 12:30-2pm, in the Alumni Reading Room, 3rd floor of the Library. All members of the Pratt community are welcome. On April 4, [...]
Comments Off | By trotsky | March 31st, 2011

Preparation for Negotiations, Update 3/27

Dear UFCT Member: The Union has thus far, conducted no less than fourteen discussion/preparation meetings with an eye on our spring-summer negotiations w/the Pratt Administration. There are just two such sessions remaining, both this coming week: (1) Monday, 3/28th from 5:00 to 6:30, and (2) Wednesday, 3/30th from 5:00 to 6:30 (both meetings will be [...]
Comments Off | By trotsky | March 27th, 2011