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“Shifting the Health Costs Burden”

sitedad — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:47:36 +0000

A loyal EMUTalk.org reader passed along to me a couple of links (one of which is embedded in the quote below) from the New York Times about shifting the costs of health care from the employer to the employee. The editorial “Shifting the Health Costs Burden” states the problem pretty bluntly:

The latest annual [...]

Last thoughts on not striking/the latest contract

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:30:42 +0000

Slight update #2: Here’s a link to the Annarbor.com wrap-up article, one that I don’t think is quite right, but….

A slight update: I’ve cut and pasted EMU-AAUP President Susan Moeller’s email to faculty below after the “read more” part. Note that the two links in her email take you to PDF files.

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At the EMU-AAUP meeting

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:03:38 +0000

And I know that everyone is pretty happy that it’s a meeting to talk about terms instead of a meeting to talk about striking. A pretty good crowd; here’s hoping the terms are decent enough. Much more after the break.

Moeller introducing, we do indeed have an agreement. Lots of applause, happy and [...]

Wow, we have a deal!

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:20:22 +0000

From Susan Moeller:

We have a tentative agreement. Please come to the meeting to hear the details. The rally and informational has been canceled for this afternoon.

Congratulations to the negotiating team – please come and thank them. They have worked so hard.

Wow, go figure! I’ll still be blogging from the meeting about [...]

Negotiating into the night?

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:07:36 +0000

I don’t know if this is good news or no news, but I noticed this morning that there has been no update from the EMU-AAUP and the update on the EMU web site says:

Monday, August 30

As of 9 p.m., negotiations remain under way. Further details will be provided when available.

By the [...]

One last update for the night

sitedad — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:27:05 +0000

…. and then I’m going to turn off the computer and/or go to bed: Susan Moeller sent around an interestingly short message tonight:

Unfortunately, today’s negotiations have been distressing. At several points, we thought we were on the road to an agreement, but nothing has materialized. We are meeting again tomorrow morning, and hopefully [...]

Bunsis visits my homeland!

sitedad — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:19 +0000

Also in non-strike news (sort of) and news I find personally amusing: From the Waterloo Cedar Falls (Iowa) Courier comes this, “Expert on financial state of universities to speak at UNI.” That expert is none other than our own Howard Bunsis, and UNI is the University of Northern Iowa in my hometown of Cedar [...]

“EMU, professors still ‘far apart’ on new contract”

sitedad — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:57:38 +0000

Nothing really new, but this is the latest on Annarbor.com, “Eastern Michigan University, professors still ‘far apart’ on new contract.”

CloseUP Classroom Fall 2010 show for new & Ol’ Faculty

sitedad — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:19:41 +0000

In non-strike news: the C2 (CloseUP Classroom) is presenting its Fall 2010 Show for New and Ol’ Faculty on Thursday, September 2, 1 pm and 2:30 PM in Alexander Hall. This group, which is run by CTA professor Jessica “Decky” Alexander, does great stuff in depicting all sorts of college experiences with short acting [...]

Dueling negotiation updates

sitedad — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:27:35 +0000

Basically, if you read EMU update for negotiations yesterday (here) versus Susan Moeller’s latest email (which I include below), it looks like the negotiations are moving in baby-steps. It sounds like there has been some progress in various insurance plans, and I guess that might help for some folks, or it might cloudy the [...]