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FAMCO Filing ULP After Repeated Delays from Administration
The Faculty Association of Monmouth University (FAMCO) today is filing an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) for the administration’s failure to provide necessary and important information for negotiating healthcare premiums for the upcoming final year of our current contract with Monmouth University. The data in question is the following document: We need to review this information…
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The Persistent Gender Pay Gap in Higher Education: The Troubling Reality for Faculty
According to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Annual Report, higher education faculty, after adjusting for inflation, saw a 2.4% drop in their real earnings despite a 4.1% increase in their pay in 2021-22. Shockingly, over the same period, presidents’ salaries rose by 9.6% and chief financial officers’ pay increased by 12.7%. The report…
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Monmouth University Hires New Lawyer, Still Won’t Deliver Health Benefits Info to Union
The Monmouth administration has delayed providing important and necessary information for negotiating healthcare premiums for the upcoming final year of our contract with Monmouth University. In addition, the University has hired a new lawyer just to negotiate with FAMCO: John C. Romeo, whom Rider University brought in to bully their faculty union, as well. Despite…
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Important Meeting May 9th on the Future of Healthcare
FAMCO’s Healthcare Bargaining team will resume negotiations with the administration on May 12th, 2023 at 9am. Despite our multiple requests for relevant information, such as Monmouth’s annual budget reports and settlements received from Horizon between 2019 and 2022, we are still waiting for this information. Our primary objective is still to secure fair premiums for…
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Solidarity with Rutgers Unions
After 10 months without contracts, the full-time faculty, post doctoral, graduate students, counselors, and adjunct faculty of Rutgers University are taking action by calling for a strike starting Monday, April 10 at 9am across all of Rutgers University’s campuses. We, the member of the Faculty Association of Monmouth University (FAMCO), support our colleagues in their…
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Healthcare Bargaining Resumes
On March 24th, the FAMCO Bargaining team convened with the administration to discuss healthcare in our first meeting since Fall 2022. Our primary objective remains securing lower premiums for faculty–who have been overpaying for healthcare–and we demand transparency and accountability over rising costs, given faculty’s critical role in fulfilling the university’s mission. Ahead of this meeting,…
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FAMCO Wins AAUP Grant!
Great news: FAMCO has been awarded the 2023 AAUP Mobilization Grant for $20,000! The funding from the AAUP grant will support our search for a new part-time field organizer who will help us coordinate next year’s contract campaign and our shift from business model unionism to social justice unionism focusing on 1-1 conversations, power analyses, and member education sessions. Take…
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Faculty Win Healthcare Agreement!
We have terrific news to share: FAMCO and the administration have successfully come to an agreement to freeze faculty healthcare premiums again for 2023! We are also pleased to announce that the administration and FAMCO will resume negotiations in the weeks ahead to establish faculty healthcare premiums for 2024. The FAMCO Executive Team and our Healthcare Bargaining Team want…
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Healthcare Negotiations/Grievance Update
By making unilateral changes to 2023 premiums and refusing to uphold their legal obligation to bargain, the Monmouth University administration is violating specific language in the University’s collective labor agreement and failing to uphold their obligations under the National Labor Relations Act. Despite these violations, FAMCO remains committed to working with the administration in good…
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Grievance Against MU Admin Incoming
FAMCO has officially filed a formal grievance against the administration for their refusal to return to the bargaining table to continue negotiating healthcare plans and rates for 2023 and 2024. President Leahy recently announced his intent to freeze the 2023 monthly premiums for non-union employees in an attempt to divide university workers, but he is still unwilling…
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