Dear Campus Community,
We had a productive sixth bargaining session with the administration. We have a tentative agreement on a Health and Safety article,
which protects the rights of faculty to require masks in their classrooms and enshrines the right to teach up to 30% of each class online
for the duration of the contract. We now have the ability to better protect the immunocompromised members of our community; ourselves,
our families, and our students.
We are close to a tentative agreement on faculty development grants, and we had discussion and made progress on protecting our members'
access to health benefits.
Best,
The Union Bargaining Team
(Brian Buckley, Patricia Cameron-Loyd, Deirdre Frontczak, Seiko Fuji, Maggie Levantovskaya, Natalie Linnell)