Reserve Your Seat for the AAUP-UC Holiday Party Today!

Reserve Your Seat for the AAUP-UC Holiday Party Before November 29th!

We are holding this year’s holiday party in a fantastic new location: The Trackside Restaurant at Union Station. This unique restaurant, featuring a wraparound bar and excellent food, is in the beautiful Utica train station, an iconic structure that is in the National Register of Historic Places. There is also convenient parking adjacent to the Trackside Restaurant entrance.

Where: The Trackside Restaurant in Utica’s Historic Train Station, 321 Main St., Utica, NY
When: Friday, December 2, 7:00pm -11:00pm

7pm – 8pm: Appetizers, Cash Bar, Music
8pm – 9pm: Dinner Including Chicken Marsala, Roast Beef, Wine & More
9pm — 11pm: Dessert, Coffee, Cash Bar, Music, Dancing & Door Prizes!

*Bonus* Photo Booth All Night Long!

To guarantee your spot, submit your reservation with payment ($20 per person) no later than Tuesday, November 29! You may make your reservation with either Dan Kurtz (via campus mail, or in person at his office right across from the mailroom) or Leonore Fleming (via email, campus mail, or stop by her office at 245 White Hall). Please make checks payable to AAUP-UC.

If you wish to donate a door prize, please contact Leonore Fleming or drop by her office (245 White Hall) no later than December 2nd.

We hope to see you there!

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CBA Ratification Schedule

Today, November 21, 2016, we held our mandatory informational meeting for dues-paying members regarding the ratification of the tentatively approved Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

Our next step is to have a ratification vote on the proposed CBA.

We will hold our ratification vote from December 5, 2016 – December 12, 2016.

The ballot will be electronic and sent to dues-paying members via e-mail on December 5, 2016 from BallotPoint Election Services.

Ratification of the proposed CBA requires approval by a majority vote of those voting.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please don’t hesitate to contact the AAUP-UC President, Paul MacArthur.

AAUP-UC Supports Long Island University Brooklyn Faculty During Lockout

Long Island University Brooklyn recently locked out the faculty in the middle of contract negotiations. This union busting attempt to starve the LIU Brooklyn faculty into submission is deplorable and the labor movement stands in full solidarity with the Long Island University Faculty Federation (LIUFF).

The AAUP-UC has sent a letter to LIU Brooklyn’s president urging the administration to end the lockout and engage in good faith bargaining immediately.

We’ve also been in touch with the LIUFF. The faculty are holding strong and have no intention of submitting to the administration’s disgraceful tactics.

If you want to support the faculty at LIU Brooklyn, you can take a moment and fill out the petition located here.

You can also follow what is happening with the lockout at the LIUFF website and the LIUFF Twitter account @LIU_FF.

Several stories have also been written about the lockout including Lockout Lessons and Locked Out On Labor Day.

At a time when academic freedom and integrity is under assault at institutions of higher learning across the country, it’s important that we stand united with the members of the LIUFF as they fight for a fair and equitable contract.

Wednesday Wisdom: Labor Day

“The use of national holidays is to emphasize some great event or principle in the minds of the people by giving them a day of rest and recreation, a day of enjoyment, in commemoration of it … (t)here can be no substantial objection to making one day in the year a national holiday for the benefit of labor.”

– U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Labor Report:  Labor Day a Legal Holiday, 1894. 

Governing Board Approves Proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement

On Friday, August 26, 2016, the AAUP-UC Governing Board unanimously agreed to approve the new proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the AAUP-UC and Utica College.

This tentative approval is now subject to a ratification vote from the AAUP-UC dues paying membership.

The procedure for the AAUP-UC ratification is as follows:

1) The new contract will be typed up with all of the tentative agreements inserted into the contract. All contract language/changes will be verified by both the AAUP-UC and Utica College. This process will take several weeks.

2) Once Step #1 is completed, the Governing Board will call an AAUP-UC membership information meeting.

3) At least one week prior to this information meeting, the Governing Board will send the tentatively approved contract to the AAUP-UC membership. The new contract, as well as a copy of the old contract, will be distributed electronically.

4) One week after the informational meeting, secret ballots will be mailed to the active membership for the ratification vote. This ballot may be electronic.

As always, if you have questions about the contract or any workplace issue, please don’t hesitate to contact AAUP-UC President, Paul J. MacArthur or any other member of the Governing Board.

Thank you for your continued support of the AAUP-UC.

Tentative Agreement Reached

On Thursday, August 18, 2016, after 16 months of bargaining, the negotiating teams of the AAUP-UC and Utica College administration reached a tentative agreement for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

This tentative agreement will now be brought to the AAUP-UC Governing Board for approval. If the AAUP-UC Governing Board approves the agreement, it will be brought forward to the AAUP-UC dues paying membership for a ratification vote. An informational meeting will be held before any membership vote and a copy of the new contract will be distributed to the membership before this informational meeting. The timeline for ratification will be presented as soon as it is available.

Additionally, the Utica College administration will need to have the contract ratified by the Utica College Board of Trustees.

To allow for this process to be completed, the current CBA has been extended until October 24, 2016.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns about negotiations, or any workplace issue, please don’t hesitate to contact the AAUP-UC President, Paul J. MacArthur or any other member of the Governing Board.

Thank you for your continued support of the AAUP-UC!

Congratulations to our new board members!

Congratulations to our newly reelected president, Paul MacArthur, our new treasurer, Xiao Xiao, and our (re)elected at-large board members: Leonore Fleming, Thomas Rossi, James Smith and Sara Scanga (1 year term), who will take office on July 1.

The AAUP-UC Governing Board for 2016-2017 is:

Governing Board Officers:

  • President:  Paul J. MacArthur, Associate Professor of Public Relations & Journalism
  • Vice President: Adam Pack, Professor of Biology
  • Treasurer: Xiao Xiao, Associate Professor of Mathematics
  • Secretary: Dan Kurtz, Associate Professor of Biology
  • Past President: Laurence Zoeckler, Associate Professor of Education

Governing Board Members At Large:

  • Leonore Fleming, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  • Kirstin Impicciatore, Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Recreation
  • Denise Nepveux, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy
  • Thomas Rossi, Professor of Management
  • Sara Scanga, Associate Professor of Biology
  • James Smith, Professor of Physical Therapy

We also want to take a moment to thank Brad Emmons, John Cormican, Tyson Kreiger, and Arlene Lundquist, whose terms ended on June 30, for their service on the Governing Board. We really appreciate their dedication to the union and their efforts to make our union stronger.

AAUP-UC Contract Extended Thru August 18, 2016

The current Utica College — AAUP-UC Collective Bargaining Agreement has been extended through August 18, 2016 in order to continue work on negotiations through the summer.

If raises/increases are negotiated into our new contract, we anticipate they will be retroactive to the original end date of the CBA, as has been the case in previous negotiations.

For your reference, the current CBA can be found here.

If you have not yet joined the AAUP-UC, please take a moment to do so now. Your membership and support are very important.

If you have any questions or concerns about negotiations, or any workplace issue, please don’t hesitate to contact the AAUP-UC President, Paul J. MacArthur.

Thank you for your patience and continued support of the AAUP-UC.