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Also in non-strike EMU news (well, sort of) is the above video and this link to EMU’s Ron English (and a couple players) talking Media Day stuff with the MAC folks. I say “non-strike” news, but it is hard for me not to flinch/remember the stuff that the EMU-AAUP has been saying about [...] It’s the beginning of what I guess I would refer to as “the silly season” for faculty contract negotiations, the time in the process where the language by both the faculty and the administration gets a little more shrill, a little more exasperated, a little more threatening and daring, where the idea of a strike gets mentioned. It was this season that really launched EMUTalk.org four years ago, mainly because of the discussion that went on during August and September 2006 (here, here, here, here, and here) on my old “official” blog. It’ll be interesting to look at those old posts in the next few days to see what’s similar and what’s different this time around. One thing is for sure: I’m not making any predictions one way or the other about us being on strike– my predictions are always wrong. Anyway, I thought I’d kick off the month of August 2010 (well, sort of– I intended to post this a few days ago, but I’ve been busy with “life” and that pesky teaching thing) here at EMUTalk with some attention to the latest blog posts from the EMU-AAUP about negotiations. There’s no way to comment on them there (which is one of the reasons why it isn’t really a “blog”), so maybe folks can make some comments here. More thoughts after the jump. Continue reading The mixed messages of faculty contract negotiations Go ahead and comment if you have impressions of the faculty meeting today in Roosevelt Hall on the contract. Here’s a link to the EMU-AAUP’s web site with the unfortunate headline “Administration Accepts Fact-finding, But Has Unacceptably Weak Response on Domestic Partner Benefit Loss.” Even in settlement, it seems combative. Personally, I think the [...] April is always the cruelest month. Our son (my wife also teaches at EMU) is on his “spring break” right at pretty much the busiest time of the year at EMU, the last couple weeks of the winter term when everything is getting wrapped up, when there are various once a year functions, etc., [...] … because today the faculty union and the administration are talking about the deal from fact finding. Let’s hope it all works out! UPDATE: Perhaps we have a deal? This just in from Mullen speaking for Fallon: MESSAGE TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY On Monday, the university and the EMU Chapter of the AAUP received [...] EMU president John Fallon was on WEMU this morning, talking about a whole bunch of the ways that EMU has found itself in the news lately. I actually recorded it, but I didn’t think it was necessarily cool to put the whole thing up on this site. Hopefully, WEMU will post it sometime soon [...] I just heard on NPR that the California State University system faculty has agreed to a deal with the administration. Here are the opening paragraphs from the “Inside Bay Area” web site, which is put out by the Oakland Tribune: The union representing 24,000 California State University faculty members has agreed to a tentative [...] Cal State University has been in the news lately over an impending strike and contract negotiations. The story seems to mirror the circumstances at EMU in some ways, just further down the road in the process. They’ve been without a new contract since June of 2005. They also brought in a fact finder. Travis [...] EMU-AAUP President Howard Bunsis sent around information about the close of the fact finding process today. Before I get to what he wrote, let me mention the rally scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, at noon, outside by the fountain in front of Welch Hall. Someone from the UAW wrote me (I assume in my role as sitedad) and wondered if the AAUP leadership would have any objection to UAW participation in this rally. That strikes me as a good idea– after all, they don’t have a contract either– but I’m not really in a position to give the go-ahead on this. So, AAUP leadership, meet the UAW leadership. UAW, this is the AAUP. I’ll let y’all exchange numbers on your own. Anyway, here’s what Howard wrote: Continue reading Fact finding “ends,” though perhaps the real adventure is just beginning My “day job” has kept me especially busy lately, so it just wasn’t in the cards for me to try to attend any of the fact finding hearings yesterday. But I wonder if anyone out there in EMUtalk-land did, and I wonder if any of you would-be reporters would like to report? And also, [...] |
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