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EMU Football MAC Media Day Stuff

sitedad — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:46:56 +0000

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 [...]

The mixed messages of faculty contract negotiations

sitedad — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:29:19 +0000

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 [...]

And so, how was the meeting?

sitedad — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:37:46 +0000

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 [...]

Wanted: EMUtalk correspondent for Monday’s faculty meeting

sitedad — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:49:00 +0000

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., [...]

Everybody hold your breath and cross your fingers…

sitedad — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:39:22 +0000

… 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?Â 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 [...]

Fallon speaks on WEMU this morning

sitedad — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:05:42 +0000

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 [...]

Cal State system averts strike

sitedad — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:40:31 +0000

I just heard on NPR that the California State University system faculty has agreed to a deal with the administration.Â 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 delays strike

Mike Garrison — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:39:33 +0000

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 [...]

Fact finding “ends,” though perhaps the real adventure is just beginning

sitedad — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:24:29 +0000

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 [...]

Seeking reports on the fact finding process

sitedad — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:20:38 +0000

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, [...]