Academy for Academic Personnel Administration
Fall 2003
Round Table Report
1. Institution Information
Name of Institution/System: University of Michigan
Name of Individual Responding: Jeffery Frumkin
Title of Individual Responding: Assistant Provost and Senior Director, Academic and Staff Human Resource Services
2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
All non-tenure track instructional staff (with effort) except clinical faculty, visiting faculty (essentially those who have been with the University for one year or less), and supervisory and/or confidential exclusions. Any instructional faculty member with a tenure track title is excluded, even if he/she otherwise has a non-tenure track title as an additional title.
This definition applies to all three campuses at the University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn
The unit size is approximately 1600.
Bargaining Agent: Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO) -Michigan Federation of Teachers
Date of First Contract: First contract negotiations began August 19, 2003
Number of Succeeding Contracts: NA
2b. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
2c. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
2d. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):
All the issues of a first contract, complicated by three very distinct campus environments.
4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)
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.):