On July 1st 2020, OT-AAUP President Dr. Sean St.Clair sent an email to Oregon Tech’s Provost concerning our administration’s proposed changes to the stipend-release model. In the interest of transparency, you can read the full text of that message below: Dear Provost Mott; It has come to our attention that you are planning to make significant changes to the Workload… (Read More)
On July 23rd, 2020, OT-AAUP leadership sent a letter to the Board of Trustees expressing dissatisfaction with a number of recent interactions with our university administration. You can read the full text of the letter here.
Notes contributed by OT-AAUP bargaining team member Dr. David Johnston, Natural Sciences, with minor edits by Communications Committee Member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences The OT-AAUP and Oregon Tech negotiating teams met on Wednesday, June 24, to continue the first bargaining round of the summer. All team members from Tuesday’s session were present for the Wednesday session. OT-AAUP… (Read More)
Notes contributed by OT-AAUP bargaining team member Dr. David Johnston, Natural Sciences, with minor edits by Communications Committee Member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences On Tuesday, June 23, the OT-AAUP and Oregon Tech negotiating teams met for their first bargaining session of the Summer. Representing OT-AAUP was chief negotiator Cristina Negoita, Professor of Mathematics; Stephen Schultz, Professor of… (Read More)
Notes contributed by Communications Committee member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences For this session, OT-AAUP brought three proposals: Grievances, Arbitration, and Compensation. The Oregon Tech team brought three proposals also: Donated Leave Bank, Leaves, and Fringe Benefits. Donated Leave Bank The session began with a discussion of the Donated Leave Bank article. The OT team clarified that this… (Read More)
Notes contributed by Communications Committee member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences For this session, the OT-AAUP team proposed two articles: Personnel Files and Workload and Overload Compensation. The Oregon Tech team proposed one article: Sabbaticals. Sabbaticals The session began with discussion of the Sabbaticals proposal. There was discussion as to why the article, as proposed, excluded NTT faculty… (Read More)
Notes contributed by Communications Committee member Dr. Ben Bunting, Humanities and Social Sciences For this session, the OT-AAUP team proposed two articles: No Strike/No Lockout and Promotion and Tenure for NTTF. The team also introduced a letter expressing their concern over the Oregon Tech team’s recent refusal to bargain particular articles. The Oregon Tech team proposed three articles: Notices of… (Read More)
On May 14, 2020, Dr. Howard Bunsis (Eastern Michigan Univeristy) delivered a presentation over Zoom to OT-AAUP members. The meeting was recorded and is posted below. Additionally, the slides from Dr. Bunsis’ presentation can be found at this link. If you are looking for a particular point in the conversation, the video is broken into chapters on YouTube at this… (Read More)
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)
Hi all, this is Ben, from the OT-AAUP Communications Committee. Our group fell a bit behind on keeping the site updated early on in the COVID-19 outbreak, but rest assured that our negotiation team and OT-AAUP group did not stop working toward our first CBA in that time. I’ve recently updated the site with bargaining session summaries from the sessions… (Read More)
