Academy for Academic Personnel Administration
Fall 2003
Round Table Report
1. Institution Information
Name of Institution/System: Quinnipiac University
Name of Individual Responding: Linda K. Broker
Title of Individual Responding: Dean, Academic Support Services
2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
238 –all full-time instructional faculty, except for those in the Law School. One counselor and five librarians are also include in this number
Bargaining Agent: American Federation of Teachers
Number of Succeeding Contracts: 7 – 8th has just been concluded
3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):
Faculty contract expired 6/30/02. There were at least three distinct negotiations that eventually resulted in a contract. In the final phase of the negotiations, the President entered the fray. The resulting contract gave the union a 3.5% increase for each of 4 years; preserved the step system for faculty on currently on contract. The university got the ability to give market to both current and new hires and eliminated the step system for any hires after July 1, 2003.
4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)
The union is busy filing grievances on all sorts of issues—change in the class schedule grid, the academic calendar, the placement of a critical letter in a faculty member’s file. All grievances are routinely referred to arbitration by the union. No arbitrations have actually been heard.
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.):
In small numbers faculty continue to take advantage of the early retirement provision of the contract.