Faculty Staff Union

12/22/2020

Dear FSU Members,

We thought this petition regarding the politically motivated firing of a professor at the University of Mississippi might interest many of you.      

12/18/2020

Dear Non Tenure Track Faculty Member, 

For NTTs eligible to apply for promotion this academic year, the deadline to submit your promotion materials is Tuesday, January 26, 2021. (master calendar  https://www.umb.edu/academics/provost/master_academic_calendar#Jan%2019)   This is a hard deadline. 

12/17/2020

Dear Colleagues, 

We are writing as your NTT representatives on the FSU Executive Committee to urge you to vote YES on the ballot sent out by the Faculty Council last week regarding some important proposed changes to the FC Constitution.  

12/16/2020

Dear FSU Members,

We have now finished well over a semester of bargaining, including impact bargaining due to COVID-19 as well as main table bargaining around the successor agreement (2017-20).   The state of Massachusetts has not provided its annual budget parameters, which are necessary for us to begin salary negotiations – although this did not prevent Admin from pre-emptively offering us 0% raises for the next three years.   We turned that down and await information from the state.