Meeting Minutes

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Minutes 25 January 2019

USF-UFF Chapter Meeting Time & Place. The Chapter Meeting was held at 12 noon on USF Tampa in EDU 317. Minutes. Minutes of the January 11 meeting approved. Attendance. Sixteen UFF members, including seven members of the Council. President's Report. Chapter Election....

Consolodation and Union News

Consolidation and Union News There are a lot of details to work out, but the picture of a consolidated University of South Florida is beginning to gel. One geographically distributed pre-eminent (high-impact) research university in which individual campuses preserve...

Call for Nominations

Image creditIt's election time for the UFF USF Chapter, and time to ask UFF USF members to consider running for office or representative seats. All dues paying UFF USF members, and only dues paying UFF USF members, may run and vote in this election. The deadline...

$500 Travel Grants for UFF Members

The USF Chapter of the UFF will award six $ 500 Travel Scholarships for summer and fall. This will be for travel for participation in a professional activity. All applications are due by Wednesday, April 17, and only UFF members are eligible. In addition, no recipient...

Minutes 11 January 2019

USF-UFF Chapter Meeting Time & Place. The Chapter Meeting was held at 12 noon at CDB Restaurant. Attendance. Seventeen UFF members, including eight members of the Council. New Business. Tuition Task Force. The Task Force is exploring tuition waivers and exchange...

USF UFF Elections

Eighty percent of life, said Woody Allen, is showing up. That goes for unions and universities as well. Both the faculty union and the faculty governance system - currently with three senates and a council on top - are participatory democracies in the sense that the...

The Contract on Salaries

Historically, the union and the USF Administration bargain four types of raises: Promotional raises. For most permanent faculty, there are two promotions during one's career at USF, first one for the promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor or for the...

The Bargaining Unit Contract

Our contract, the Collective Bargaining Agreement, is supposed to be succeeded by a new contract in the summer of 2019, and bargaining is underway. One of the top items is Article 23 on Salaries. In this issue, we look at salaries under the current contract, and what...