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Update: This Week in Bargaining
Dear Members, Yesterday, the FAMCO bargaining team was back at the table working to advance our proposals for real earnings increases safeguarded from healthcare price gouging. The big take-away is that the administration’s response sends us the message that they are unwilling to truly hear the faculty’s repeated and compelling testimony of the ways in which soaring…
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Celebrating Our Faculty on Labor Day!
Pictured: Observers and members of the bargaining team arrive for negotiations on August 27, 2024. This Labor Day, FAMCO recognizes the 174 full-time faculty members who have signed the open letter of support for our bargaining team. Your commitment and solidarity are instrumental in advancing our shared goal of winning a contract with real earnings…
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This Week in Bargaining! Still No Real Earnings Increases
Dear Members, Yesterday, the FAMCO bargaining team returned to the negotiating table to hear the administration’s latest proposals for compensation increases, healthcare rates, and a commitment to address the problem of a shrinking tenure-eligible faculty. We wish we could report that the administration moved significantly closer to a position on each of these key issue areas…
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Bargaining Update: Expecting Big Moves from Administration
Dear FAMCO Members, We write with a Monday morning update on the status of last week’s contract negotiations. As of today, FAMCO has been negotiating for six months with the MU administration to settle on a fair contract for faculty, not only during this critical time in higher education more broadly, but at a time when we know…
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FAMCO BARGAINING UPDATE: AUGUST 8, 2024
Top from left to right: Sue Starke; Marina Vujnovic; Bill Byrne; Aaron Furgason; Nick Messina. Middle from left to right: John Comisky; Laura Turner; Sanjana Ragudaran; Megan Delaney. Bottom left to right: Gabi Hackenberg; Johanna Foster; Lisa Iannucci; Mark Ludak; Rose Knapp; Not in photo: Tom Carey. The Administration Hardly Moves on Insulting Economic Proposals…
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Action Update: Over Half of the Full-Time Faculty at MU Sign Open Letter Calling for Real Earnings Increases as Parties Return to the Bargaining Table Next Week.
119 members initially responded and now over half the Full-Time Faculty have signed on to show their support for the Bargaining team as they negotiate for fair pay for Monmouth faculty. We, the faculty of Monmouth University, write in support of the FAMCO Bargaining Team’s salary proposal. We request that faculty be paid a reasonable…
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Bargaining Update. Salary Negotiations Begin!
Dear Members, Below you’ll find the details of the compensation proposal that the FAMCO negotiating team presented to the administration at the bargaining table on July 9th. In brief, FAMCO demonstrated that the university is 1) in solid financial shape; 2) can afford to compensate faculty fairly; and 3) can afford to restore our lost…
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Happy Juneteenth National Independence Day!
Juneteenth marks the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. On June 19th in 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the Civil War had ended and that all enslaved people were now free—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom,…
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Bargaining Update #3: FAMCO Tentatively SEALs Key Non-Economic Deals!
This week, the FAMCO bargaining team is pleased to announce that we have come to a tentative agreement with the administration on our platform of non-economic proposals, marking a significant turning point in our nearly four months of negotiations on key issues that we know are important to our membership. As we move closer to…
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Bargaining Update #3: May 15
This Wednesday, May 15, the FAMCO Bargaining Team conducted our sixth negotiating session that lasted 7 hours. Present for the administration’s team were Provost Rich Veit, Associate Provost Susan Gupta, VP Christine Benol, VP Joseph Pingitore, VP Jim Pillar, MU General Charlene Diana, and Senior Paralegal Karen Morrow. As a reminder, leading the negotiations for the…
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