Academy for Academic Personnel Administration

Fall 2003

Round Table Report

 

1.  Institution Information

 

Name of Institution/System: The University of Montana-Missoula/Montana University System

 

Name of Individual Responding: Don Robson

 

Title of Individual Responding: Associate Provost

 

2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition

 

500 member faculty, tenure & tenure track plus non-tenurable .50FTE or greater.  Excludes School of Law faculty.

 

 

Bargaining Agent: University Faculty Association (UFA) local affiliate of the consolidated MEA/MFT (state affiliate of the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers).

 

Date of First Contract:  1980?

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  approx. 10 (2-to-4 year contracts)

 

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3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):

 

Tentative settlement:  Two year contract.  2004: 0% ATB, promotion/merit & reduced market adjustment  retained. 2005: $500 increase to each faculty base (effective Feb.1), promotion increases maintained, reduced number of merits, market adjustments maintained.

Numerous, but not significant, wording changes in various sections.

 

 

4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)

 

None

 

 

 

 

5.  Special happenings related to fiscal issues (e.g., salary reductions, health and dental insurance costs, reductions in force, early retirement programs, program consolidation or elimination, etc.):

 

Our biennial legislature allocated no money for state employee salary increases for the first year of the biennium (2004).  They generously provided $0.25 per hour salary increase money effective January, 2005 for all state employees.  There was also an increase in the state share to be contributed for health insurance, but not enough to off-set the increased costs for less coverage. Tuition increases of 8% were put in place to cover increased fixed costs – none for faculty salaries.