Recent Bargaining Gains

Recent Bargaining Gains for Faculty Negotiated by UFF-UWF.

2022-2023

  • 3.0% Cost-of-Living Increase
  • 2.9% Bonus
  • Established 9% promotion increase to the ranks of Senior Instructor, Senior Lecturer, and Senior Research Associate with contractual commitment that if this percentage increases in the future, faculty who received 9% will be brought up to the current higher percentage increase when/if negotiated.
  • Rollout schedule for the above positions agreed upon to beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year.

2021-2022

  • $1,000 one-time bonus
  • included an agreement between the parties that the university will negotiate during the negotiations in the ne re-opener the percentage increase and roll-out schedule for the forthcoming promotion structure to the ranks of Senior Instructor, Senior Lecturer, and Senior Research Associate.
  • Increased the free graduate hours tuition benefit for dependents from 3hrs per semester to 6hrs per semester.
  • Added the positions of Associate Clinical Professor and Clinical Professor to the 13% promotion percentage amount.
  • Established $20,000 total in recurring funds to be available on an annual basis for additional tuition scholarship funds for faculty dependents.

2020-2021

  • Expanded the Paid Parental Leave program so that faculty may now utilize the program twice in a faculty member’s career rather than just once as was previously stated in the CBA. 
  • Introduced new voluntary mediation language in the grievance article. 
  • Introduced a new third sabbatical option into the contract for a full-year (fall and spring semester) sabbatical, two semesters at 2/3rd pay
  • Permanently raised the age cap on phased retirement to 66 from 65 
  • Memorandum of Understanding addressing impacts of COVID-19
  • Memorandum of Understanding temporarily expanding access to Phased Retirement
  • Memorandum of Understanding establishing the positions of Senior Lecturer, Senior Instructor, and Senior Research Associate with PERC

2019-2020

  • One-time $500 bonus.
  • Inversion base salary increases up to $6,000.  
  • Cost-of-living increase in March 2020 equal to CPI-U, (1% min/ 2% max).
  • A 2-year pilot tuition scholarship program for faculty dependents that is modeled on a similar, negotiated pilot program at FSU.  
  • An MOU stating that the university will petition PERC to establish the positions of Associate Clinical Professor and Clinical Professor.

2018-2019

  • One-time 5% bonus ($1,500 min/ $4,000 max).
  • Increased the Phased Retirement age cap from 63 to 65.
  • 2% cost-of-living increase to base salary.
  • 1% increase to Associate and Full Professors, Associate and University Librarians, Associate and Full Research Scholars/Scientists/Engineers, and Research Associates who previously received an Associate Professor, Associate University Librarian, Associate Research Scholar/Scientist/Engineer, or Research Associate promotion increase equal to or less than 9%.

2017-2018

  • One-time 5% bonus ($1,500 min/ $4,000 max).
  • 2% cost-of-living increase to base salary.
  • 2% increase to Associate and Full Professors, Associate and University Librarians, Associate and Full Research Scholars/Scientists/Engineers, and Research Associates who previously received an Associate Professor, Associate University Librarian, Associate Research Scholar/Scientist/Engineer, or Research Associate promotion increase equal to or less than 9%.
  • $1,000 increase on 8/8/18 to Instructors, Lecturers, and Research Associates who are eligible to participate in the multi-year contract program or have an existing multi-year contract and have at least three years experience as an in-unit Instructor, Lecturer, or Research Associate.

2016-2017

  • 1.3% cost-of-living increase to base salary. 
  • Increase of Associate Professor, Associate University Librarian, Associate Research Scholar/Scientist/Engineer, and Research Associate promotion from 9% to 13%.

2015 – 2016

  • 1.9% increase to base salary.
  • Salary inversion increases up to $8,000.
  • Reclaiming lost cost-of-living increases dating back to 2006.
  • Implementation of paid parental leave.
  • Implementation of optional early sick-leave buyout.

2014 – 2015

  • One-time 1.9% bonus. 
  • 1.9% increase to base salary.
  • The development and implementation of a Sustained Performance Evaluation system that includes scheduled performance evaluation and increases up to $6,000 to base salary for library and tenured faculty.
  • A multi-year contract system for instructors, lecturers, and library faculty that includes increases of $1,000 to base salary for instructors and lecturers.
  • Same-sex domestic partner benefits for in-unit faculty.