Category: Bargaining Updates

Notes contributed by Communications Committee member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences For this session, the OT-AAUP team proposed five articles: Recognition, Working Conditions, Benefits, Fringe Benefits, and Leaves. The Oregon Tech team proposed four articles: No Strike/No Lockout, Management Rights, Disciplinary Procedures, and Association Rights. OT-AAUP presented the Recognition article first. The Oregon Tech team commented that the… (Read More)

Notes contributed by Communications Committee member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences The OT-AAUP team proposed three article during this session: Donated Leave Bank, Labor Management Committee, and No Strike / No Lockout. The Oregon Tech team proposed one article: Notices and Communication. The session began with discussion of the Notices and Communication article. The Oregon Tech team changed… (Read More)

Notes contributed by Communications Committee member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences  The OT-AAUP team proposed four articles during this session: Non-Discrimination, Recognition, Appointments, and Notices. The Oregon Tech team proposed four articles as well: Non-Discrimination, Labor Management Committee, Personnel File, and Management Rights. Both teams presented their changes to the Non-Discrimination policy (each linked separately above), then agreed… (Read More)

Notes contributed by Communications Committee member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences OT-AAUP proposed three articles during this session: Labor Management / Impact Bargaining, Personnel File, and Intellectual Property. The Oregon Tech team proposed six articles during this session: Recognition, Discipline, Grievances, Outside Activities, Non-Discrimination, and a Tentative Agreement (TA) on Severability. The OT-AAUP team began the session by… (Read More)

Notes contributed by Communications Committee member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences Note: The original notes from which this summary was written include a disclaimer that reads “the audio connection was very bad, and it was difficult to make out many details (including who was speaking).” OT-AAUP proposed two articles during this session: Severability and Non-Tenure Track Promotion. The… (Read More)

During the February 28th bargaining session, our faculty bargaining team proposed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in response to Dr. Naganathan’s previous offer regarding the 2019-2020 COLA. This MoU stipulates that Oregon Tech faculty with an appointment of greater than or equal to .5 FTE will receive a 4.05% COLA retroactive to January 1st of this year for twelve month… (Read More)

Notes contributed by Negotiating Team member Dr. David Johnston, Natural Sciences On Friday, February 28, the OT-AAUP and Oregon Tech bargaining teams met for the second session of the sixth round of negotiations. Chief Negotiator Cristina Negoita was unable to attend this session, so Prof. Stephen Schultz acted as the OT-AAUP Chief Negotiator for this session. The OT-AAUP team began… (Read More)

Notes contributed by Negotiating Team member Dr. David Johnston, Natural Sciences The Oregon Tech and OT-AAUP bargaining teams met on Thursday, February 27 for the first session of their sixth round of negotiations. The session began with both parties Tentatively Agreeing (TAed) to (and signing off on) the Distribution of Agreement article, which had been discussed at the January 31st… (Read More)

Notes contributed by Negotiating Team member Dr. David Johnston, Natural Sciences On Friday, January 31, the OT-AAUP and Oregon Tech bargaining teams met for the second session of the fifth round of negotiations. The OT-AAUP team presented counter proposals on Distribution of Agreement and Preamble, as well as a new proposal on Sabbatical Leave. The teams began with discussion of… (Read More)