TO: MEMBERS OF THE PRATT FACULTY UNION FROM: PRATT FACULTY UNION ELECTIONS COMMITTEE RE: ...

Dear UFCT Dues Paying Member: The date for the return of the nominations ballot for UFCT elections was this past Monday, November 29th....

At least fifty faculty attended the November 22 meeting. Kye Carbone reported that 210 petitions were delivered to the administration in support of obtaining a 50% buy-in for adjuncts’ health benefits, in addition to explaining the history of this issue (the joint union-administration committee on the Visiting status), and the gradual shrinking of the number of Visiting faculty vis a vis the Adjunct/Full-time status. Pratt’s faculty is currently composed of 130 FT, 325 Adju

Dear UFCT Member: I am pleased to announce that the UFCT has scheduled two General Membership Meetings for the fall 2010 semester. These meetings are open to all dues paying union members. [Agency fee payers are not permitted to attend!] Both meetings will be open forums dedicated to discussing our upcoming spring 2011 negotiations. The current 2007-2011 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is due to expire on August 31, 2011. We would like to call for negotiation

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Link to ARPT Forum Packet Fall 2010

Dear UFCT Member: Please find attached the ARPT packet that was distributed at the September 10th: ‘ARPT Forum.’ Fifty-two members attended representing sixteen of some twenty-one Pratt department/area(s). It was a great success! [The packet is posted underthe category ” ARPT Criteria and Documents,” at right]. For those who could not attend though, we discussed the tenets and provisions comprising Article XVI [CBA]: Appointment, Reappointments, Promotions and Tenure (which

The second annual ARPT (Committees on Appointment, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure) forum will be held on September 10, 2010 from 10-2 at Anima, an Italian restaurant located at 458 Myrtle Avenue, between Waverly and Washington (on the south side of Myrtle). Please RSVP to Kye Carbone if you are planning to attend (the restaurant can hold approximately 75 people) at kyecarbone@gmail.com. We will discuss how the ARPT process has played itself out in the past in various d

ARPT: Committees on Appointment, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (see Article XVI of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, available on this website). Last year the UFCT sponsored such a forum for the first time, which was – as based on the many responses we received – a rousing success [over fifty-plus in attendance representing some sixteen Pratt department/areas!] At the close of last year’s event, we agreed that such a forum should become a perennial affair! As

2 days after our petition was sent, the two parties had reached a 3-year agreement. Here is the news release from AETNA. The petition may not have directly done any good, but I still think it is worthwhile for consumers to speak up and protest when corporations decide they can charge the same amount for a much-degraded commodity (and unfortunately, health care is primarily seen by both Democrats and Republicans as a profit-generating commodity in the USA). –Suzanne Verderbe