Re: Our Latest Compensation Proposal

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 we had them previously) and yearly updates in line with national averages at four-year baccalaureate institutions. (We used national averages because that is the only data senior administration would provide us.)

In this counterproposal, we conceded COLAs for 2020-2021 to share in the sacrifice due to the pandemic this last year, and we are asking for 3.00 % COLA for the 2019-20 (retroactive) given that we did not have any COLAs in 2018 or 2019 (which should have been at least 2% each year).

Thanks, as ever, for your support!

In solidarity,

Kari Lundgren, OT–AAUP Secretary

On behalf of the OT–AAUP Executive Committee