Academy for Academic Personnel Administration

Fall 2003

Round Table Report

 

1.  Institution Information

 

Name of Institution/System: Wayne State University       

 

Name of Individual Responding: Margaret E. Winters

 

Title of Individual Responding: Associate Provost for Academic Personnel

 

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

 

·        All teaching faculty at 50% or higher faculty appointment (approximately 1600 represented faculty).

 

·        All Academic Staff at 50% or more employed as Advisors, Admissions and Financial Aid Officers, coaches and trainers (except those in Division I sports), Librarians, Archivists, etc. (approximately 260 represented staff members)

 

Bargaining Agent: AAUP-AFT

 

Date of First Contract:  1972

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:   13   

 

URL: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/aaup_aft/contract_2002-05.htm

 

 

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

 

All Graduate Teaching Assistants and Graduate Student Assistants (approximately 350).

 

Bargaining Agent:  AFT

 

Date of First Contract:  1999

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  1 after one-year extension of first contract

 

URL: http://www.gradschool.wayne.edu/assistantships/ContractPage.html

 

 

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

 

AAUP-AFT faculty/academic staff contract is in the second year of a three-year contract.

 

The GEOC graduate assistant contract was renegotiated and ratified in spring 2003 with minimal changes, as follows:

 

·        modest increases in salary each year based on disciplinary area (Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences)

·        establishment of a ‘contribution fund’ as a third option along with dues and service fee; money goes to tuition assistance

·        extension of the probation period to a semester from 45 days  

 

 

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

 

Arbitrations for faculty/academic staff union:

·        relationship between work assignment and allocation of space (no report yet from the arbitrator)

·        use of fractional tenure positions in the School of Medicine (hearing occurs in September)

 

 

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.):

 

No changes in either contract despite approximately $25 million cut in state allocation for FY 04

A university-wide retirement incentive program did not affect faculty and was not attractive to most academic staff

 

Layoffs taking place currently do not touch faculty or academic staff (the former by design and the latter because supervisors did not target them for the RIF)