Dear Colleagues, Earlier this morning, you received an email from the Office of Human Resources entitled “COVID-19 Incentive Program,” announcing the details of an Early Retirement and Enhanced Separation Plan that has been approved by the Board of Trustees. If you have not yet had a chance to review the plan, we suggest that you… Continue reading Early Retirement and Enhanced Separation Plan
The negotiating teams for the administration and the PSU-AAUP met on May 3. The AAUP brought a counter-proposal for Salary. It was rejected by the administration. The ANT brought no new proposals for Benefits, Retrenchment, or Agency Fees. However, after seeing our original draft recap of the session, President Birx–and Dean Mears and Julie Bernier… Continue reading AAUP Bargaining Recap for May 3
The negotiating teams for the AAUP and administration (ANT) met on February 22 for our first bargaining session of 2018 (our January session was scratched due to weather). Earlier in the month, we had sent them counter-proposals on Retrenchment and Benefits. President Birx attended this session in order to specifically address concerns over the salary… Continue reading Bargaining Recap for February 22
The negotiating teams for the AAUP and administration (ANT) met on October 26. It was an exciting afternoon as we closed the books on two proposals and re-opened negotiations on an article we had been told the administration would not discuss. To the latter point, President Birx has agreed to re-open talks on a Shared… Continue reading Bargaining Recap for October 26
On October 17, 2017, Jeremiah Duncan (PSU-AAUP President), Scott Coykendall (PSU-AAUP Lead Negotiator), and Cathie LeBlanc (PSU-AAUP Communication Chair) met with President Birx at his request. The President had originally requested a meeting with Jeremiah and later invited Scott. In discussing this, the PSU-AAUP Executive Committee decided that Cathie should also attend as Communication Chair.… Continue reading October 17 Meeting with President Birx
Dear Colleagues, I am writing you with some updates on the negotiating process to bargain our first contract. The Research Teams (please see below for the list of teams and their chairs) have been meeting and working diligently over the past several weeks to develop contract language proposals, which the Negotiating Team (see below for… Continue reading Bargaining Update
Dear Colleagues, This is the promised follow-up to my email of a couple days ago, using our TidyHQ listserv. Again, if you are receiving this email, you are a member of the bargaining unit represented by the Plymouth State University Chapter of the AAUP, and you are eligible for membership in the union. Chapter Meetings… Continue reading Membership Update
Hello everyone, You are receiving this email because you are eligible to join the Plymouth State University Chapter of the AAUP. I am writing to you as the newly-elected President to inform you of the current activities of the chapter. Please forgive the length of this email, but I believe it contains information that… Continue reading Activity Update from PSU-AAUP President
