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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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Admin Trying to Rewrite Health Benefits Bargaining and Leave the Table
Despite (empty) gestures to the contrary, the administration is trying to back out of health benefits negotiations, disrespecting our faculty trying to protect the health and financial welfare of their families and households. Hang a FAMCO Affordable Healthcare Benefits for All poster facing out your window to tell President Leahy you want the admin to go…
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Important Health Benefits Bargaining Update!
Before President Leahy’s all-employee open call today, we want to update everyone on the status of our healthcare negotiations, as it seems Leahy may want to share decisions he has made, or intends to make, for non-union employees. Be aware that any changes, or proposed changes, to our health benefits program that he may choose…
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Health Benefits Meeting Recap
FAMCO hosted a productive meeting for its members along with members of the campus staff union (OPEIU). FAMCO leadership presented the administration’s latest offer (about as bad as the last), and Barbara Caress (our health insurance consultant) provided expert commentary. Below, you’ll find the 30-minute presentation, a copy of the table from the video for…
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Special Member Meeting with Healthcare Consultant This Wednesday Night
Mark your calendars for a special member meeting this Wednesday (November 2) from 7pm-8pm on Zoom where our FAMCO healthcare consultant will explain the administration’s current proposal and FAMCO’s recommended response. We have also invited our good colleagues from the staff unions to join us for the update as well. All active FAMCO members will find an…
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Admin to Pitch Unapproved Health Plans to Non-Union Faculty–Data Inside
The administration and FAMCO have NOT reached an agreement about University health benefits, but the administration is barreling forward anyway. The plans on offer at upcoming “healthcare information sessions” with the HR benefits team DO NOT address the FAMCO Healthcare platform, and the administrations seems to be trying to push past that fact quietly. Presumably, these…
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New Letter to the Editor: Open Letter to President Leahy
FAMCO and OPEIU leaders, Johanna Foster and Holly Davis, have published a letter to the editor in The Outlook, Monmouth University’s campus newspaper, addressed to Monmouth University President Leahy on the employee health benefits currently under negotiations. President Leahy has said, at recent campus events, that campus health and wellness are major issues for him…
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