Global News According to the AFT website, "thousands of union members and supporters rallied in cities across the country on November 15 [2007] to draw attention to a slew of anti-worker decisions handed down by the National Labor Relations Board, declaring that the NLRB should be ‘closed for renovation' until the nation gets a board that is fair and impartial…In September alone, the Bush-dominated NLRB-an agency that is supposed to protect workers' rights-issued more than 60

From an email sent by Kye Carbone to the membership on October 24, 2007: Dear UFCT Member: I am apologizing at the outset of this email communiqué for the short notice, but apparently reserving a room for a much needed face-to-face union meeting has become more than a #?&* ordeal! In any event, although I requested an early November date, it turns out that our first 'General Membership Meeting' for the semester is scheduled for: Wednesday, October 31st, from 12:30pm-1:50pm, i

From an email sent by Kye Carbone to the membership on October 27, 2007: Dear UFCT Members: The Office of Human Resources is making a genuine effort of notifying all Pratt employees of the ‘Open Enrollment' period which runs from: October 22nd to November 9th. The Open Enrollment period was announced on the pratt.edu web-mail system and notices were sent to individual homes. Moreover, HR has notified the UFCT directly, the following communiqué from Lisa Frankel who is the Ben

From an email sent by Kye Carbone to the membership on October 17, 2007: Dear UFCT Member: It is hard to believe that the UFCT will be...

From an October 11, 2007 email send by Kye to the membership: Dear Faculty Colleague: The faculty action cycle has begun. For those who are applying for: (1) Reappointment (those full-time faculty on the tenure track), (2) Promotion (part-time and full-time alike applying for a change in rank: Instructor to Assistant, Assistant to Associate, or Associate to [Full] Professor), (3) Status Change (the visiting part-timer applying for adjunct status), or (4) Tenure (full-time an

On September 13, 2007, Kye Carbone sent the following email: Dear UFCT Member: As Pratt faculty members, most of us are aware of how...

From the September 22, 2007 status report: Hard to believe that late this fall semester the UFCT will be once again conducting its...

From the September 22, 2007 status report: The 2003-2007 Collective Bargaining Agreement expired on August 31, 2007. As of this writing, the UFCT and Pratt Administration have already held six negotiation sessions (two to three hours each), having started in June, and are scheduled to meet two more times back-to-back in early October. Mid-month and in late October, the mediator/arbitrator: Martin Scheinman, who oversaw our last negotiation (for the 2003-2007 CBA), and who has

From Kye Carbone’s September 22, 2007 status report: I am exceedingly proud that the UFCT has now established – over the last four years – an impressive track record of vigilance in defending the Contract, the bargaining unit and its bargaining unit members. A lengthy grievance report, giving summaries of all grievances for academic years: 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 is being completed at this writing and will be distributed to each and every UFCT member by mid-semester.

Read the American Association of University Professors' 1940 Statement of Principles of Academic Freedom and Tenure .