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Progress Report: President’s Response to Our Call for Transparency
We’ve received a response from President Leahy regarding our open letter, and we want to commend all Monmouth faculty for your relentless commitment to this cause. While we have not yet received the complete “FEBP 2024” document, President Leahy has acknowledged our concerns and committed to providing us with the necessary information for fair bargaining…
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Honoring Our Collective Strength
Happy Labor Day! Today, we celebrate the hard-earned achievements of the labor movement and the contributions of workers across the nation. Labor Day is not just a day off; it’s a day to recognize the power of unity and the results of collective action. Unions stand as a testament to what can be achieved when…
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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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