Academy for Academic Personnel Administration

Fall 2003

Round Table Report

 

1.  Institution Information

 

Name of Institution/System: University of San Francisco

 

Name of Individuals Responding: Donna Davis and David Philpott

 

Title of Individual Responding: General Counsel

 

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

 

Full-time faculty and librarians

n = 300

 

Bargaining Agent: AFT

 

Date of First Contract:  1976

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  8

 

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

 

Part-time faculty

n = 500

 

Bargaining Agent:  AFT

 

Date of First Contract:  1986

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  5

 

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

 

Associated Law Professors

 

Bargaining Agent:  Independent

 

Date of First Contract:  1978

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  3

 

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

 

No changes.  Bargaining to take place in 2004-05.

 

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.):

 

Increasing health care costs, accounting treatment of early retirement obligations as a bar to program implementation.