By Rebecca Sunderman, UFE Bargaining Team Chair and Laurie Meeker, United Faculty of Evergreen Chair We are writing to keep you informed about recent developments in UFE negotiations with the Evergreen administration on our successor agreement (second contract). Negotiations began on May 18, 2011 and after four negotiation sessions we reached an agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) covering faculty compensation and benefits. The UFE Stewards Council came together on June 27 to ratify the MOU and we issued a joint announcement with College President Les Purce on June 28 describing the MOU and its key provisions (see: http://www.evergreen.edu/provost/docs/2011-0628%20UFE.pdf). Read More
For a summary of last week’s actions involving the longshoremen and the Longview port, including the one-day closing of the Seattle and Tacoma ports, see this article posted at The Stand.
As of Sept. 13, Tacoma teachers are on strike. For details, see the We Teach Tacoma blog.
Original article from CHE. Update from CHE.
An article (published May 23) summarizing and contextualizing recent attacks on labor faculty, and the Koch Brothers’ funding at FSU and elsewhere: http://subterraneandispatches.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/attacking-memory-of-workers-struggle/
UFE Bargaining Team, 2011: Rebecca Sunderman (Chair) Jose Gomez, Grace Huerta, Gary McNeil, Laurie Meeker, Sarah Ryan, Joli Sandoz. Please contact members of the bargaining team with your ideas. Contract negotiations have begun. Thanks to all those who completed the online survey, attended bargaining forums, and/or met with your steward to provide your input on compensation, working conditions, and benefits. Your input in all of these forms will inform the work of the Bargaining Team representing the United Faculty of Evergreen in the upcoming contract negotiations, helping ensure that the contract addresses the priorities of all faculty members. Look here for updatesRead More
April 8 Rally: 7,000 – 12,000 strong, including many UFE members. UFE Chair Laurie Meeker is quoted in this front page story from the Olympian. Photos Photos from the March 17 Rally at the capitol, featuring UFE members and others. February 21 Rally (photos from UFE Steward Lin Nelson):
A prominent conservative blogger posts edited footage of online labor studies lectures at University of Missouri. Faculty job threatened. Story in Chronicle of Higher Education, April 28, 2011 An update (May 17), via Democracy Now Useful commentary, including analysis of the unedited and edited videos, at Crooks and Liars. AAUP statement
