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Admin response to LEO FOIA Request: Sorry, What?
In January, LEO made a FOIA request to obtain records of the salaries of the top administrators on each campus, including the President, Chancellors, Provosts and other key administrators. As of mid-August, they still have not provided that information, despite legal obligations to do so.
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.
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.
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.
LEO-GLAM: Achievement Unlocked! Card Check Edition
IT’S OFFICIAL! LIBRARIANS, ARCHIVISTS AND CURATORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HAVE A UNION!
LACs will join LEO as a separate bargaining unit known as LEO-GLAM.
But before we talk about what comes next for librarians, archivists, and curators, let’s take a moment to review how we got here, and then talk about what comes next.
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.
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.
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.
LEO Position on Fall 2021 Reopening
LEO’s Union Council recently approved this letter stating the Union’s position on a safe Fall 2021 semester, which we will present to President Schlissel and the Board of Regents.
Lecturer Bargaining Update: Bargaining Recap for 6/11/21
More than half of the proposals have Tentative Agreements (TA’s) but many of the proposals still on the table have been some of the most contentious in this 6-month process.
The high point of the day was the tentative agreement on our workload package of MOU 2 (Full-Time Opportunities) and MOU 7 (Title Bridge between I/II to III/IV).
After much deliberation by the Bargaining Committee, we presented a Salary counter that reduced our proposal by $2 million. This movement on our part was to demonstrate our dedication to bargaining in good faith. We stressed our commitment to “moral minimums” and parity across the campuses.
Member Perspectives: LEO-GLAM, “There is strength in the union”
On June 3, 2021, librarians, archivists, and curators (LACs) held their first membership meeting as “LEO-GLAM.”
GLAM stands for “galleries, libraries, archives, and museums,” and it’s a commonly used shorthand for the kinds of environments our information professional and cultural heritage colleagues work in here at the University of Michigan.
At this meeting, Colleen Marquis [they/them]—an archivist on the Flint campus—delivered powerful opening remarks summarizing how LEO-GLAM came to be. We are excited to share their words with you, and we hope you find this vision inspiring.
Lecturer Bargaining Update: Bargaining Recap for 6/4/21
The big win of the day was a TA on Article XXVIII where we’ve finally got management to agree that each School or College must publish current workload standards for each Lecturer title employed by that unit no later than January 1, 2022.
The afternoon kicked off with Bob King’s presentation showing that the state constitution treats the University of Michigan as a single entity to support our arguments that central admin can and should allocate money to support the Dearborn and Flint campuses. This was followed by impassioned speeches from State Reps Yousef Rabhi (Ann Arbor) and Abdullah Hammoud (Dearborn) in support of campus equity for Dearborn and Flint and greater funding for higher education overall.
Next, Stamps School of Art & Design instructors AndyT Thompson and Patricia Beals presented their experiences with wage theft at UM as Admin continues to deny back pay to lecturers on the 12 month pay schedule for yearly wage increases.