Bargaining Blog 3/14/23: A Piece of the Pi
Today was our first bargaining session after we shared economic proposals in January! These are the proposals that may cost the university money, such as wages, benefits, promotions, and professional development. Our last blog post detailed our economic bargaining priorities. Economics is an exciting step in the process, because it means we’re heading into the final phase of contract negotiations. It also means that we’ve successfully come to tentative agreements with the university on most of our non-economic proposals. We are still negotiating with the university on layoffs and COPE deductions, but we hope to settle those issues soon. We’ll be honest with you, this bargaining session was disappointing, in part because the university refused to engage with our proposals on issues that we know are important to our members, such as path to promotion, rewarding longevity, making benefits for staff and librarians more similar, and flexible work strategies. Their counter to our wage propo