Thursday, October 27, 201112:00 Noon-1:00 PMStudent Union, Key West Room 218ATopic: Open meeting of all members of the United Faculty of Florida-UCF Chapter to discuss the cur...
Posted on Friday, October 21, 2011 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,I hope the fall semester is going well for you.The Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the UCF Board of Trustees (BOT) and the United Faculty of Flori...
Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 [View Article]
We hope you were pleased by the recent announcement that the BOT and UFF bargaining teams came to agreement on Article 10 (Employee Performance Evaluations.) You will be asked...
Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,All members of the UFF-UCF bargaining unit, whether dues-paying UFF members or not, are eligible to participate in the ratification vote scheduled for November ...
Posted on Monday, November 22, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleagues:The UFF and the Administration have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which will result in your receiving your raises. The next step in the process is...
Posted on Friday, November 19, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleagues:I am pleased give you more information about agreement signed on November 10 by the UFF and the UCF Board of Trustees (the administration). Because you are rep...
Posted on Monday, November 15, 2010 [View Article]
Dear President Hitt and Provost Waldrop,We have watched your YouTube videos a number of times and are concerned that, perhaps, you do not understand UFF’s position with resp...
Posted on Monday, November 1, 2010 [View Article]
Unfortunately, UCF’s Board of Trustees Subcommittee on Compensation has voted not to give faculty a raise. UFF had recommended that the BOT accept the independent Special Ma...
Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,You will recall on September 28th the UCF administration wrote to you, "The university agrees 100 percent with the magistrate’s recommendation that faculty me...
Posted on Friday, October 22, 2010 [View Article]
Here is a copy of UFF's positions presented at the impasse hearing on 21 October 2010. View Here
Posted on Friday, October 22, 2010 [View Article]
October 13, 2010Dear Colleagues:You are invited to the Impasse Hearing on October 21, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. in MH 307, the President’s Board Room. You will have an opportunity ...
Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,The BOT bargaining team sent you a message earlier this week which, unfortunately, appears to imply that they intend to continue this slow impasse process, payi...
Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,Great news!We just received the recommendation from the Special Magistrate. His recommendation is that all eligible faculty and professional staff should receiv...
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,A number of you have inquired about the status of your $1,500 bonus and share of the 1% merit raise pool.Because of the impasse process, the Board of Trustees w...
Posted on Thursday, September 9, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,Yesterday, the impasse hearing regarding 2009-2010 salaries occurred before Mr. Kenneth Starr, the special magistrate who was appointed by the public employee r...
Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,Your United Faculty of Florida (UFF) bargaining team has some invitations for you.First, UFF declared impasse regarding 2009-2010 salary negotiations because no...
Posted on Friday, July 2, 2010 [View Article]
Inform yourselfWhether or not you support the UFF's stand on protecting your rights, in spite of the Administration's attempt to wage a Public Relations campaign to undermine ...
Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleagues:There have been a series of misleading emails from the UCF administration recently concerning a pay raise offer for faculty. Here, simply put, is UFF’s posit...
Posted on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 [View Article]
UFF Memorandum to Faculty June 16 2010Dear Colleagues:I appreciate that many of you contacted me and President Hitt last week with your support and ideas. The dialogue is heal...
Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 [View Article]
Letter to Faculty 10 June 2010Dear Colleagues:It is good that the Administration is able to provide a small raise package at this time. Our faculty and staff are the heart of ...
Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,As you know from our March 15th email, the UCF Board of Trustees (BOT) has offered a small raise package for 2009-2010. This package contains a one-time merit b...
Posted on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,I want to thank everyone who took time to mark their ballots for the contract ratification vote. The results are 156 votes against ratification and 22 votes for...
Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,We’re writing to provide a brief update on the status of bargaining raises for the current year (2009-2010).As you’re probably aware, a ratification vote is...
Posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Bargaining Unit Members:The ratification vote on the UCF Board of Trustees’ proposed new Collective Bargaining Agreement will be held on March 23rd and 24th. Bargaining...
Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,Last week, you received an email from Rick Walsh, chair of the UCF Board of Trustees, notifying you that the BOT had voted to approve a contract in the ongoing ...
Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Provost Hickey:The UCF faculty appreciates the budget updates that you have sent out periodically over the last year or so; however, we request that you provide more co...
Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,"Has the contract been settled?" I've been asked this by dozens ofcolleagues over the last week or so, as the administration announced thatthey are proceeding w...
Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 [View Article]
At the previous collective bargaining session, UFF proposed a comprehensive package for settling the new contract. Our offer would accept status quo (current contract langua...
Posted on Monday, January 12, 2009 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,Unfortunately, the BOT bargaining team cancelled today's bargaining session.At that session - which had been scheduled for months - UFF intended to present an a...
Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 [View Article]
The 24 October bargaining session has been canceled. The 1:00 PM -3:00 PM 7 November session has been moved to 9:45 AM 6 November location TBD.
Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,
This brief email updates you on UFF’s most recent salary proposal (Article 23) which was presented to the BOT bargaining team at our last bargaining session...
Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,
Today's bargaining session ended just a few hours ago and I wanted to be sure to clarify the good news on salaries and to post you on some bad news on th...
Posted on Monday, October 6, 2008 [View Article]
The UCF Board of Trustees and the United Faculty of Florida are pleased to announce that they have agreed to implement promotion raises effective August 8, 2008, for employees...
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 [View Article]
Dear Colleagues,
I know you've been concerned about the raise money that the Provost emailed about a couple of weeks ago, and rightfully so. I'm writing to you from a c...
Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,
Welcome back to campus for the Fall 2008 semester. I was pleased to see this morning that the repairs to the "education" parking garage (A) were done in ...
Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,
It has been four months since I last wrote to update you on the bargaining process and I wish I were writing with better news.
Negotiations have prog...
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,
Where's your raise? That's a fair question. Your UFF bargaining team has been negotiating with the BOT bargaining team for almost a year, but we...
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,
Earlier today, your UFF bargaining team presented a salary counter-proposal to the Board of Trustee's team. You will recall that the BOT proposal w...
Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,
Two weeks ago, your UFF bargaining team wrote to ask for your help gathering information about parental leave for birth or adoption and summer teaching. ...
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 [View Article]
Dear Colleague,
Your UFF bargaining team is writing to ask for your help. Our negotiations with the Board of Trustees (BOT) have gone fairly well this year and we have ...
Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 [View Article]
Dear Colleagues,
This month, your union, United Faculty of Florida (UFF), and the UCF Board of Trustees begin negotiations on the 2007-2010 Collective Bargaining Agree...
Posted on Monday, November 27, 2006 [View Article]