Bargaining Session Report
Our latest bargaining meeting with the Oakland team was Wednesday, June 23, 2021. We continued to promote the proposals our team presented in earlier sessions, elaborating on our positions and, at times, suggesting ways to move forward. Oakland submitted two new proposals and we continued to discuss several of their previously-presented proposals.
New proposals by Oakland:
- Removal of Paragraph 20.a. This paragraph was created in response to the changes that needed to be implemented by the 2013 passage of the Michigan “freedom-to-work” laws. Those changes have been implemented and the language is no longer needed in the Agreement.
- Layoff and Recall Procedures. Oakland proposed a new retrenchment system that would limit the time frame of notice faculty would receive prior to layoff and expand Oakland’s ability to make layoff and recall decisions without faculty input.
We will be reviewing the proposals above and responding to them at a later date.
Discussions about previous proposals covered a range of topics, including: Post-Tenure review, Joint Appointments, Changes to Appendix A: Research and Full-Time Adjunct Faculty, Credit for prior experience when hiring special instructors, Use of gender-neutral pronouns in the Agreement, and Arbitration Initiation.
The two teams are set to meet again Friday, June 25.