NOTICE OF RATIFICATION VOTE
TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY BARGAINING UNIT REPRESENTED BY THE UNITED FACULTY OF FLORIDA – UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA CHAPTER UFF- UWF
VOTING FOR RATIFICATION OF THE 2024 – 2025 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING REOPENER AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UFF-UWF AND THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA WILL OCCUR AS LISTED BELOW:
DATE: FRIDAY, May 10, 2024
TIME: 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Bld 22, University Commons (area in front of Commons Auditorium)
ALL MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY BARGAINING UNIT ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE REGARDLESS OF UNION MEMBERSHIP.
VOTING SHALL BE BY SECRET BALLOT OF BARGAINING UNIT MEMBERS WHO ATTEND THE MEETING. BARGAINING UNIT MEMBERS SHOULD BRING IDENTIFICATION TO VERIFY VOTER ELIGIBILITY.
VOTES SHALL BE PUBLICLY COUNTED AND THE RESULTS ANNOUNCED AT THE CONCLUSION OF VOTING AND COUNTING.
THE PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE 2024-2025 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING “REOPENER” AGREEMENT ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
Bld 22, University Commons (area in front of Commons Auditorium) – days of vote
Online at http://uffuwf.org
Items for Ratification
MOU Regarding One-Time Wage Action (Bonus) [Not subject to ratification – Included here for reference]
This is an MOU (Not subject to ratification) where UFF waives the right to negotiate a bonus/”one-time wage action” so that the bonus scheduled to be given to out-of-unit faculty on May 10 will also be distributed to in-unit faculty at the same time and in the same manner: “UFF-UWF waives the right to the negotiation of the terms and conditions of any non-recurring, one-time wage action for the 2024-2025 “reopener” Collective Bargaining Agreement so long as the “one-time merit-based” wage action outlined in President Martha Saunders’s March 20, 2024 email titled, “Message from the President: Merit-based Wage Action,” is provided to in-unit faculty inclusively, simultaneously, and under the same timeline and eligibility requirements, utilizing the “Dean’s Overall Rating,” as outlined in President Saunders’s March 20, 2024 message.”
Article 3: UFF Privileges
Includes new language changing UFF Summer compensation from “whenever the bargaining teams are engaged in collective bargaining” to “for the purpose of carrying out the UFF’s obligations in representing Faculty and administering this Agreement.”
Article 13: Non-Reappointment
Previous language on notice period:
“(1) Faculty in their first two (2) Years of Continuous Service will be provided with one (1) Semester’s notice (or its equivalent, 19.5 weeks, for Faculty appointed for more than an Academic Year); or
(2) Faculty with two (2) or more Years of Continuous Service will be provided with one (1) Year notice.”
New language on notice period:
“(1) For faculty in their first three Years of Continuous Service, the notice period will be eight weeks or the end of the semester, whichever comes later; or
(2) Faculty with three or more Years of Continuous Service will be provided with one (1) Year notice.”
Article 25: Salaries
Base Salary Increase to be distributed August 8, 2024:
“Faculty who are employed as of August 8, 2022, and who are continuously employed through August 8, 2024 (“Effective Date”) and who received a rating of Distinguished on the completed 22–23 performance evaluation will receive a 4% recurring merit increase to the base salary. Faculty who are employed as of August 8, 2022, and who are continuously employed through the Effective Date and who received a rating of Excellent on the completed 22–23 performance evaluation will receive a 3% recurring merit increase to the base salary. Faculty who are employed as of August 8, 2022, and who are continuously employed through the Effective Date and who received a rating of Good on the completed 22–23 performance evaluation will receive a 2% recurring merit increase to the base salary. For 9-month Faculty base salary at the end of the 23–24 Academic Year (May 6, 2024) will be used to calculate this recurring increase and will exclude administrative supplements and pay for temporary duties. For 12-month Faculty base salary on August 7, 2024, will be used to calculate this recurring increase and will exclude administrative supplements and pay for temporary duties. This recurring merit increase to base salary will be effective August 8, 2024. Faculty who have received a notice of non-reappointment, termination, or separation with advance notice prior to the Effective Date will not be eligible. For the purpose of the merit-based recurring increase, the 22–23 performance evaluation rating will be the Dean’s overall rating.”
One-Time Salary Adjustment for Instructors, Lecturers and Research Associates:
(a) The University will provide, effective August 8, 2024, a $1,000 recurring base salary increase to eligible in-unit Instructors, Lecturers and Research Associates.
(b) To be eligible for the increase, Instructors, Lecturers and Research Associates must:
- Have at least three consecutive years’ experience as an in-unit Instructor, Lecturer or Research Associate;
- As of August 8, 2023, have been employed under a “multiyear appointment,” as defined in Article 9.4(f)(3)(a) of the 2020–2023 CBA;
- Have not been issued a notice of non-reappointment or termination or tendered a resignation prior to the effective date of this increase; and
- Have not received an increase for a multi-year contract in the amount of $1,000 on December 10, 2023.
Article 26: Benefits
“Status Quo” – No Change
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