LEO Communications Committee 10/31/23 LEO Communications Committee 10/31/23

2023

Our bargaining team presented six proposals in the morning, breaking for the rally, and coming back strong in the afternoon with eight economic proposals.

We will meet next on November 10th with a Kickoff on Dearborn Campus, followed by a Kickoff in Flint on November 17th!

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Lecturer Bargaining Update: 2023 Kickoff Events!

We’re kicking off another lecturer bargaining cycle with events on all three campuses, and hope you’ll join us!

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Bargaining Wins: 2021/2022 Lecturer Salary Flow Charts

LEO Members received an email today with updates on the new lecturer salaries following our successful contract negotiations. You can scroll down to the bottom of this post to read your campus-specific email. In this post, you will find salary flowcharts based on lecturer title to calculate your new monthly salary.

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Lecturer Bargaining Update: LEO Tentative Agreement Reached 9/13/21 & Contract Ratified 9/19/21

LEO Lecturers reached a Tentative Agreement on September 13th, 2021, and subsequently ratified the contract on the 19th. This post includes the text of the email messages that members received about these exciting milestones.

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Lecturer Bargaining Update: Potential LEO Job Action

We have reposted the text of an email sent to membership about the potential for a job action, and information about the upcoming GMM and Bargaining sessions.

LEO Communications Committee 8/31/21 LEO Communications Committee 8/31/21

Lecturer Bargaining Update: LEO Summer Bargaining Roundup

LEO’s contract negotiations with U-M administration have been going on since January. In this post, we round up the status of bargaining this summer and share resources to understand the status of negotiations.

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Lecturer Bargaining Update: Update from 8/26/21 & Day 2 of Move-In Actions

Today we received admin’s counter proposal. They did not move on any of the non-salary issues, and the salary counter was terrible.

Around 100 lecturers and community allies, including members of the Graduate Employees Organization, undergraduate students, tenure-track, and other campus community members, joined the informational picket lines held today during the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s campus move-in from 10am-2pm. We hope to see you tomorrow 10am-2pm, at the dorms on Observatory Street in Ann Arbor.

LEO Communications Committee 8/7/21 LEO Communications Committee 8/7/21

Lecturer Bargaining Update: Rally for a Fair Contract!

AFTER NEARLY EIGHT MONTHS OF BARGAINING, the U-M administration continues to bring forward inadequate salary offers and refuses to make reasonable movement on issues such as governance, felony disclosure, and teaching professor. As a result, LEO AFT-MI Local 6244 will be giving the administration 30 days’ notice effective August 9 that we are quitting the existing contract.

ALL LECTURER FACULTY AND LEO ALLIES ARE INVITED to tell U-M Admin to RESPECT THE LECS! at the Quit the Contract Rally THIS MONDAY, 8/9, from 11am-1pm. Meet in front of the LSA Building at 500 S. State St. in Ann Arbor to listen to speakers, rally, and picket for a fair and equitable LEO contract.

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Lecturer Bargaining Update: Bargaining Recap for 7/9/21

The final July Session was a short one. We presented on Professional Development, Governance, and Retiree Email Access. We will return to the table on Wednesday, August 4. It is possible some small group discussion on various issues will happen in the interim.

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Op/Ed: We Are Getting Tired of Asking Nicely

Multiple lecturer members share their opinion about the current state of contract bargaining with administration, and why they are getting tired and frustrated.

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Lecturer Bargaining Update: Bargaining Recap for 6/23/21

This past Wednesday’s bargaining was disappointing but also clarifying. We received 5 counter-proposals from Management. The next bargaining session will be Wednesday, June 30th.

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Lecturer Bargaining Update: Bargaining Recap for 6/18/21

We had hoped for clarity on salary after Thursday's budget vote, but we did not receive a salary counter. We are hoping for a much improved salary offer during Wednesday's bargaining session.