After 150 days of bargaining, management offered this:
- 0.25%/yr COLA (cost of living adjustment)
- Health insurance monthly cap increases of $50 for employee only, $100 for employee + spouse or employee + children, and $150 for employee + family
- This is a pay cut because health insurance caps have increased and so has inflation.
That’s it.
They rejected every other monetary proposal, including pay for advanced degrees and bilingual skills, equity for PT faculty, reasonable course scheduling, and release time for shared governance work. They claim to have set aside just $2M out of a $675M general fund budget for our economic package. At the same time, the President’s Office Budget increased by more than $17M.
Watch your FFAP Bargaining Team deconstruct the management budget talking points and call out their bad faith throughout the bargaining process:
FFAP Budget Analysis (Alex Jordan)
- Canceling courses despite enrollment
- Calculating the cost of step increases
- Questions for Management
Deconstructing Management Budget Spin (Michelle DuBarry)
Management Bad Faith (Courtney Bailey)
If closed captions aren’t available when you watch, check back as they should show up soon.
After months of management wasting time, delaying, and refusing to discuss any proposals, we called for mediation today.
There is only so much progress we can make by talking. It’s time to turn up the pressure and let administration know we are done wasting time.