A Letter Regarding HEP Compliance
The Union side of the Health Care Cost Containment Committee has composed the following informational letter addressing concerns related to HEP compliance.
To read the letter, follow this link: HCCCC Letter
The Union side of the Health Care Cost Containment Committee has composed the following informational letter addressing concerns related to HEP compliance.
To read the letter, follow this link: HCCCC Letter
(3/6/2017) CFE invited CFT Training Director Laura Kurre and Political Organizer Jessica Ulstad to an all-day retreat on February 28, 2014 for a strategic, union building workshop for the Executive Board. CFE is dedicated to improving union outreach by learning new ways of expanding communications.
Topics that were discussed included budgeting, outreach and communications, as well as future goals. Our focus was setting SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) goals and tactics to reach new and current members.
Click HERE for the Comptroller's memorandum regarding the decrease in the General Services Adminstration milage reimbursement rate from 56.5 cents to 56.0 cents.
By Lori Melton*
UMD Office of External Relations
What started as a simple conversation has evolved into a lifelong quest for Shannon Walsh, an assistant professor of Political Science at UMD.
Here are some of the more common questions we get about UEA and membership. If you have other questions, please contact us directly.
Q: What services does UEA provide to faculty?
A: UEA’s primary task is to negotiate the contract (the collective-bargaining agreement). We also implement and enforce the contract.
Q: What has UEA done for the faculty lately?
By John Hamlin
UEA President Elect
I have an idea: To increase our graduation rates and make sure students are as productive as possible; let’s require all students to take 20 credits a semester. I know, some already do, so why not bring the rest up to that level? We can then provide a mechanism by which a students can buy down the course load if they can demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that they are already working too much in some other aspect of their professional student life.
(3/14/2014) On Wednesday, February 19, Assemblymember Rob Bonta (Oakland) introduced AB 1942, the Fair Accreditation Practices for Community Colleges Act, before an appreciative audience of faculty and students in Sacramento. The bill, co-sponsored by CFT and the City Attorney of San Francisco, will allow community colleges to choose their own accrediting entity; currently the rogue Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges holds a monopoly on accreditation of the state’s community colleges.
(2/24/14) After years of resistance by District management, the Board of Trustees finally compelled the Chancellor to agree to increasing the hiring of FT Faculty now to start in Fall 2014 from 12 to 20 positions. Management continued to exaggerate the cost of additional positions, and tried to sway them with concerns about spending down the reserves, but the Board was unwavering and approved the additional positions unanimously. We don't yet know how many positions will be hired at each college.
Click here for a copy of our contract we negotiated in November 2014.