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Next Event:

UFF Chapter Meeting - Informal
February 24, 1:00-3:00 pm
Lunch Provided

SRHM 111


Later this semester:

UFF Chapter Meeting - Formal
March 16, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch Provided
Room TBD

UFF Spring Social
April 8
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Wine & Hors d’Oeuvres
Room TBD


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With new faculty arriving at FGCU and others leaving, our chapter is under 50% membership.  Please take a few minutes to share the importance of having a strong faculty voice in governance with your colleaguesContact Sheila Bolduc-Simpson (sbolduc@fgcu.edu) for more information.  Download the membership form.



Our Future as Faculty: Ratified Agreement Honors Our Commitment 

Dear Colleagues:

Another school year starts on the heels of a summer that flew by.  I hope you found yours restful, productive and energizing as you embark on this new year which promises to be exciting and challenging.  UFF returns to campus this year with more than half of the faculty as members (we are the second largest proportion unit in the state) and having just completed negotiations that averted impasse and achieved, among other things, a bonus and raise for continuing unit employees.  The work that lies ahead this year is to fully negotiate a new three year agreement that continues to strengthen faculty rights and protections and partners with the University to support our growth in numbers and stature. 

After 15 months of negotiation, the United Faculty of Florida – Florida Gulf Coast University Chapter (UFF) and University Administration reached a tentative agreement on issues that led to impasse. As a result, impasse hearings were cancelled. The University Board of Trustees approved the contract at their Sepember 21st meeting (download the contract). The agreement includes key gains for faculty consistent with the values outlined below:

What’s next?

In February 2011, UFF and Administration will begin negotiating the entire Collective Bargaining Agreement article-by-article, line-by-line in order to complete an agreement covering 2011-2014. There is hard work ahead in this process and UFF remains committed to ensuring that FGCU honors our commitment, particularly in the following areas.

This most recent agreement is a testament to the spirit of collaboration among faculty. We are especially grateful for the support of new members who helped us achieve majority membership at a critical moment and for all members who helped us write messages, attend bargaining sessions, raise issues with colleagues, and inform us about what is important to them so that we can represent all areas of faculty concern. 

The voice of the faculty union is strong and it is critical that it becomes stronger with a larger and larger majority. More voices and hands increase our chances of success. Please join, get active, and help realize our vision of a quality University that honors our commitment and a quality education for the people of Southwest Florida.

Submitted by the UFF Executive Committee, August 20, 2010; updated February 14, 2011

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