Save the Date:
UAOSU’s Summer Solidarity Social!
Wednesday August 29th @ 4:30pm – 8:30pm
Avery Park’s Thompson Shelter
Author: Ashley Bromley
End of Term BBQ
End of Term BBQ
Friday, June 8th, 4-8pm
Avery Park Thompson Shelter
Join us for an End of Term BBQ to celebrate and relax after a term of hard work and amazing organizing! Food and beverages will be provided. Please RSVP here for yourself and your family so we’re sure to have plenty of food!
Tuğrul Özel: Faculty Unionization Experience for International & STEM Faculty
Tuğrul Özel: Faculty Unionization Experience for International & STEM Faculty
Monday, May 14th, 4-6pm, Memorial Union
Tuğrul Özel is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University. Dr. Özel will speak about his experience as a member and leader in the Rutgers AAUP-AFT faculty union. He will highlight how his union has specifically represented the needs of international faculty, through both contractual improvements and deeper social connections among all faculty. Dr. Özel will also discuss the gains he and other STEM faculty have achieved through collective bargaining.
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Unions Are for Faculty: The Rutgers University Experience
Unions Are for Faculty: The Rutgers University Experience
Monday, May 7th, 4-6pm, Memorial Union
David Hughes is a Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Dr. Hughes will share his experiences as a member and leader in the Rutgers AAUP-AFT faculty union—which represents more than 7,700 faculty, including full-time faculty who are tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure track (state and grant-funded), and Postdocs. He will speak to some of the ways in which faculty across ranks and disciplines collaborate in their union and work to improve conditions at Rutgers for faculty and the broader community alike.
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Howard Bunsis: OSU Financial Analysis
Illuminating Institutional Priorities: OSU Financial Analysis
Howard Bunsis
Thursday, April 26th, 12-2pm, Memorial Union Journey Room
Howard Bunsis is a Professor of Accounting at Eastern Michigan University and past Chair of the American Association of University Professors Collective Bargaining Congress. An expert in university finances, Howard performs financial analyses of universities across the country. These analyses shed light on the financial state of the university and the extent to which institutional spending reflects the prioritization of the university’s teaching, research, and outreach missions. Howard will offer his analysis of OSU’s finances followed by a Q&A session.
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UAOSU Office Hours
UAOSU Office Hours
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Tuesday, April 17th, 11am-3pm, MU Talisman Room
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Join us for office hours! Come talk with faculty active in building our union, get your questions answered, sign your authorization card, and pick up your mission statement poster.
As you likely know, we have reached the final step in gaining legal recognition of our faculty union at OSU. The card check process requires a majority of all eligible faculty sign an authorization card in order to approve our union. Signing a card is a ‘yes’ vote, and not signing constitutes a ‘no.’ This makes the process even more democratic than a traditional election, where the outcome is determined only by those who choose to cast a ballot within a narrow window. This higher threshold for demonstrating majority support gives every faculty member an equal voice in the process and removes the possibility for abstention. It’s therefore crucial that every faculty member has the full opportunity to make an informed decision. We hope you’ll stop by our office hours to have your questions answered and to sign your card if you’re in support.