Category: News

Colleagues, I think it’s fair to say that we were all surprised by senior administration’s declaration of impasse this afternoon. We will have general meetings for you about this (including next steps) next week; stay tuned for dates and details. There is now a 30-day cooling-off period during which negotiations will continue, and, after which, either senior administration can implement… (Read More)

Please see below a summary of OT-AAUP’s latest salary proposal, prepared by members of the bargaining team:

Hi, colleagues, I’m writing today to share some key information about recent bargaining proposals—namely, what our compensation proposal costs and why, as well as why we rejected senior administration’s workload and benefits package. (As you may recall, senior administration presented their workload and benefits proposals in a linked package, which means that we would have had to accept both proposals… (Read More)

Colleagues, I’m writing to share OT–AAUP’s compensation counterproposal as presented by math faculty member Joe Reid at bargaining yesterday. Here is our compensation proposal and here is the slideshow overviewing the framework for the proposal. Our compensation proposal is based off of nationally accepted metrics and addresses salary compression, discipline differentials, terminal degrees adjustments, housing stipends (i.e., geographic stipends as… (Read More)

Though generally, proposals shared during mediation are not made public, OT-AAUP publicly proposed a package of five articles on 2/25. We have made this package available for your viewing on our proposal table, as well as at the links below: Package Proposal Cover Page Academic Classification Proposal Benefits Proposal Faculty Compensation Proposal Sabbaticals Proposal Successor and Term of Agreement Proposal