From the Chapter President: The Year in Review, Defending the First Amendment, and Inaugural Chapter Awards 
May 06, 2022
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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions…. I ought to go upright and vital and speak the rude truth in all ways. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841) &nbs ... Continue Reading →
UFF statement on the “viewpoint discrimination” survey: do not participate!
April 03, 2022
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This coming week, the University of Florida will be joining other public institutions of higher learning in Florida in distributing an ideological viewpoint survey. This survey requests all faculty, staff, and students respond and share not only their own political and religious viewp ... Continue Reading →
Spring Membership Dinner
March 20, 2022
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Please follow this link to RSVP by April 13. When: April 20, 2022, from 5:30 – 8:30 pm Where:: Cypress & Grove Brewing Company, 1001 NW 4th St. Gainesville Event: UFF-UF Annual Spring Dinner and affirmation of Chapter Election results. Come dressed and ready to impress! All ... Continue Reading →
Bargaining unit votes on Fall 2021 COVID Memorandum of Understanding
October 19, 2021
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On October 1, 2021 that UFF-UF bargaining unit ratified Part 1 of a Memorandum of Understanding covering the impacts of COVID on faculty working conditions. The MOU’s main provisions are as follows: General UF will share the State University System’s criteria for determining if ... Continue Reading →
Tentative agreement reached on 2021 salaries
August 11, 2021
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On Monday, August 2, your United Faculty of Florida (UFF) Bargaining Team and representatives of the University of Florida Board of Trustees (BOT) finalized a raise package for the roughly 2,000 members of the UFF bargaining unit. The text of the tentative agreement can be found ... Continue Reading →
STATEMENT BY THE JOINT UFF-UF/GAU COVID TASK FORCE
August 05, 2021
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The University of Florida faces a real emergency. We simply cannot ignore the recent precipitous rise in COVID infections, pretending that plans that may have seemed reasonable even a few weeks ago are still up to today’s challenge. The case for strategic reconsideration ma ... Continue Reading →
Bargaining update: UFF raise proposal
July 29, 2021
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Our Chapter’s Bargaining Team is currently negotiating with the Board of Trustees Bargaining Team over Article 24 (Salaries) of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). We are working hard to get the salary increases that faculty deserve. Our next bargaining session is at 3:00 pm th ... Continue Reading →
Bargaining Update: Negotiations concluded for the 2021-2024 Collective Bargaining Agreement
June 14, 2021
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UPDATE: the 2021-24 CBA was ratified on June 18, 2021. Visit this page for links to the current and past CBAs and any relevant MOUs. The UFF-UF Bargaining Team is happy to announce that we recently finished negotiating the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for 2021-2024. Pleas ... Continue Reading →
Labor Notes
- A New Sense of Possibility: Starbucks and Amazon Wins Inspire Organizing at Trader Joe's, REI, Target, and Apple June 30, 2022
- Viewpoint: Two Contrasting Visions of the Labor Movement Were on Display in June June 28, 2022
- Collectively Fabulous June 23, 2022
- ‘Progressive’ Food Company Amy’s Kitchen Faces Multiple Unfair Labor Practice Charges June 23, 2022
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