02/15/22 Union Updates: Calling All Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Dear colleagues,

All non-tenure-track clinical, teaching, and research faculty are invited to a discussion session on Wednesday, February 23 at 3 pm to look at ways to address common concerns, such as selective salary factors and representation on P&T committees charged with promoting non-tenure track faculty. Zoom meeting link: check your e-mail or call the union's office.

EXECUTIVE BOARD NOTES

The union’s Executive Board met last week. We set a date for the Winter semester General Membership meeting for Friday, April 8 from 4–5:30 pm. We discussed ways to update our bylaws, specifically with regards to the composition of the Executive Board, so that we might have more opportunities to elect officers from the union’s general membership. We voted to donate $500 to support miners who have been on strike in Alabama for months. Members of the Executive Board will be engaging in a two-day strategic planning session later this week to set longer term goals for the union.

GREAT LAKES COFFEE IS UNIONIZING: RALLY TOMORROW AT NOON

Join Great Lakes Coffee baristas at the corner of Woodward and Alexandrine in Detroit tomorrow (Wednesday) for a rally from 12–1 pm. They are unionizing with Unite Here Local 24, which also represents many janitors at Wayne State. Several of the Great Lakes employees are also Wayne State students, and they could use our support!

DETROITERS SPEAK: MAKING LABOR WORK

Join community activists and labor organizers, including several from AAUP-AFT 6075, for a series of panels on organizing for power in the 21st century. Events take place Wednesdays, 7–9 pm in February and March, streaming from https://tinyurl.com/GBIYouTube. March events will tentatively take place in person at the General Baker Institute at 15798 Livernois, Detroit.

Union member teachers in Northern Michigan have asked for our help writing to legislators to request support for high speed internet access for rural parts of the state.

In solidarity,

Danielle

09/29/21 Updates

Dear Colleagues,

As you may have seen, the 15 public universities in Michigan will see a 5% one-time state funding boost this fiscal year. This summer, tuition was increased by 3.9%. On Friday, the Wayne State University budget—which takes these new funds into account—will be presented at the Board of Governors meeting.

We should all watch carefully to see how the additional millions of dollars coming to Wayne State are allocated. We need these funds to support instruction, research, and our students—not outside consultants, administrative salaries, or major new building projects. We need funds to be transferred into our departments and units, our labs, classrooms, libraries, and studios. We need funds to go toward hiring faculty and academic staff, addressing pay inequity, filling vacancies in the many understaffed areas across campus, and fixing facilities issues that have arisen from years of deferred maintenance.

In solidarity,

Danielle Aubert President, AAUP-AFT Local 6075 Wayne State University Chapter

ANNOUNCEMENTS

General Membership Meeting: Friday, October 8, 4–5 pm

Come to the first General Membership meeting of the semester! We will discuss goals for the year.

Post-negotiations Follow Up Work

There are a few issues we will continue to work on now that the new contract has been ratified. An Equity Committee will be forming to establish guidelines for the childcare subsidy pool and continue to address work-life balance and pay inequity; the Lecturers Steering Committee will be focusing on the path to promotion for new ranked Teaching faculty, and on ways to support all non-tenure track faculty at WSU. Other committees will be forming to make recommendations around Flexible Work Arrangements, online teaching, and SETs and teaching evaluations.

Please indicate your interest in engaging with any of this work by filling out this Google form.

Executive Board Update

The last meeting was Friday, Sep. 24. An ad hoc committee was established to coordinate the formation of the various committees described above. We voted to support the Labor Notes Troublemaker’s School that will take place on the Wayne State campus on Saturday, November 20. There are 20 spots available for AAUP-AFT 6075 members to participate. Email office@aaupaft.org to participate. We voted to support the Anti-Bullying Statement of Values drafted by members of the Academic Senate. The next Executive Board meeting will be October 22.

Council

The next meeting of the Council of Representatives will be Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 12:30 pm. Know your Council Rep! If you’re in a unit or department without a Rep, contact Council Chair Kristen Chinery or email office@aaupaft.org to find out how to address that.

Support WSU Building Engineers

Urgent concerns have been raised by WSU Building Engineers about understaffing. Licensed engineers are being replaced by unlicensed personnel (if they’re being replaced at all), and it is affecting their ability to keep up with basic maintenance. See the attached letter from our WSU union siblings in IUOE Local 324.

Liaison to Curriculum and Instruction Committee

We are in need of a union liaison to the Academic Senate Curriculum and Instruction Committee. If you’re interested email office@aaupaft.org for more information.

Michigan AFL-CIO Convention

The Michigan AFL-CIO Convention will take place on October 20 from 10 am – 1 pm. We are apportioned 3 delegate spots to represent AAUP-AFT Local 6075. If you’d like to attend the Convention, email office@aaupaft.org.  

10/14/20 General Membership Meeting

Wednesday, October 14, 2020, Noon - 1:30 pm. 

Zoom Meeting (further information will be sent to you, including the link to join the meeting, as we get closer to the meeting date)

Call for Nominations -- 2020 Spring Officers Election

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Nominations for Local Union Vice President, Treasurer, and Executive Board Member-at-Large are now being accepted.

Nomination forms must be submitted to the AAUP-AFT Union Office by close of the General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Forms may be faxed to (313) 577-8159, scanned and e-mailed to office@aaupaft.org, or mailed or dropped off to the Union Office, located at 5057 Woodward Avenue, Suite 3301, Detroit, MI 48202. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor of the AAUP-AFT General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, scheduled from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., in Ballrooms A&B of the Student Center Building.

Nominators and Nominees must be active AAUP-AFT, Local 6075 members. The Membership Meeting is only open to Union members.

Please note: Nominations require two (2) signed nominators, and the signed approval of the nominee. Please be sure to include a 250-word (1/2-page) bio, which includes a description of your accomplishments, and a statement on why you are running for Union Office.


The Call for Nominations, as well as the Nomination Form are attached.

Sincerely,

Nominations Committee
AAUP-AFT, Local 6075
Wayne State University Chapter

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Office Descriptions


The Vice President acts in the absence of the President, as the presiding official of the Union and the Executive Board, and shall assist in the duties of the President.

Term: Two years, Fall 2020 – Fall 2022

The Treasurer is responsible for the collection of all Union monies, and for the discharge of all financial obligations of the Union. The Treasurer presents an annual financial report, and in consultation with the President, prepares an annual budget for consideration of the Executive Board. The Treasurer makes available the financial records to any member, provided that adequate notice is given. The Treasurer annually presents the books of the Union for an audit or review by a Certified Public Accountant, who is not a member of the collective bargaining unit. The Treasurer may delegate any of these duties to the Executive Director of the Union, but such delegation does not vitiate the Treasurer’s responsibility to ensure their proper discharge.

Term: Two years, Fall 2020 – Fall 2022

Executive Board Member-at-Large acts for the Union in carrying out its purposes - to promote the interests of higher education, to advance the standards, ideals, and welfare of the profession, and to serve as the collective bargaining agent for the faculty and academic staff of the University. The Executive Board regularly meets to review and vote on Union policy in the interests of Union members.

Term: Two years, Fall 2020 – Fall 2022

04/03/19 General Membership Meeting

General Membership Meeting -- Wednesday, 3.08.17 -- 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. -- SCB, Hilberry B

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Nominations for the Spring Officers Election (Local Union President, Secretary, and Executive Board Member-at-Large positions) will be accepted from the floor of the General Membership Meeting.  All nomination forms must be returned by the close of the General Membership Meeting.  The Call for Nominations and blank nominations forms will be available at the registration table (find them here online).

Please be sure to join us for this important meeting of the membership.  Light lunch will be provided.

Sincerely,

Charlie

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Charles J. Parrish

President, AAUP-AFT, Local 6075, WSU Chapter

Vice President-at-Large, AFT Michigan

President, AAUP Michigan Conference

Member-at-Large, National Council, AAUP

5057 Woodward Avenue, Suite 3301

Detroit, MI  48202

313.577.1750

03/08/17: General Membership Meeting

Wednesday, March 8, 2017, general membership meeting in the Student Center, Hilberry B, between Noon and 1:30 PM