IN ALUMNI CENTER. Bargaining Session IV: Economics, Thursday 2/26 10AM. 02/25/2015

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IN ALUMNI CENTER. Bargaining Session IV: Economics, Thursday 2/26 10AM.

  02/25/2015

The faculty union will present its economic proposals this Thursday in Room 403, Ford Alumni Center. Be there. NOTE: Not in Library this time.

In 2013 the union opened with a proposal for 9% raises for each of the two years of the contract. Basically this was the Lariviere plan, to get UO salaries to the AAU medians. The University countered with, if I remember correctly, an offer of 2%, for one year. Rudnick, Gleason, and Blandy said this was all UO could afford, saying UO had already spent the Lariviere money on other things.

Months of bitter haggling ensued. VPFA Jamie Moffitt refused to give the union the documents showing UO’s budget projections:

The union brought in Howard Bunsis, a forensic accountant, to challenge those few budget numbers that Moffitt would provide. Bunsis showed that Moffitt had been building a large and increasing reserve – so large it broke OUS’s rules. Moffitt fled the room in tears. Literally.

The University then made a take it or leave it offer of, if I remember right, 5.5% spread over 2 years. More was impossible. Rudnick told us “The well is dry”.

The union ignored the threat. Eventually we got ~12% in raises, spread over two years. Plus Tim Gleason’s $350 in Goat money. What will happen this time? Show up Thursday and find out:

Meanwhile, here’s some data on how UO’s senior administrators are taking more and more of the brisket: