AAUP
Executive Board meeting, Wednesday 21 October 2016, 3:30-5:20pm, (ATG)
conference room 406, University of Washington, Seattle. Dial in:
206-315-1785 (code 609912#, UW Global Net)
STRATEGIC PLANNING PLANKS
1.
Improve
conditions for lecturer faculty at the UW
2.
Engage in
advocating for better higher ed funding in
Washington State; work in coalition with other stakeholders.
3.
Faculty Senate
Resolution to get faculty representatives on search committees for
deans, provosts Board of Regents faculty representation
4.
Partner with
other universities for appeals to the legislature
5.
Faculty unionization
6.
Work to repair
the UWÕs faculty grievance adjudication system
7.
Build faculty
understanding of ÒActivity Based Budgeting.Ó
8.
Involve the AAUP
in the Faculty CouncilÕs committee on intellectual property.
9.
Work to increase
the capacity of faculty to provide better oversight to unpaid internships.
10.
Examine the
shared governance issues associated with the UWÕs move towards an on-line learning
undergraduate degree completion program.
11.
Monitor search
process for open University administrative positions to ensure they are open.
Attendance: Amy Hagopian/secretary, Diane Morrison, Jay Johnson, Bruce Kochis, Eva Cherniavsky, Hwasook Nam, Jim Gregory, Michael Honey, Libi Sundermann, Jim Liner
(phone), Rob Wood/past-president, Max Lieblich, Abraham
Flaxman/List server VP.
1. Introductions*
2. Announcements:
a.
Upcoming meeting schedule: Nov. 17 (ATG-406), Dec. 15 in UW Club (Rob will be
gone), and RETREAT Jan 13, 9:30 to 3:30 pm (needs a location; Rob will look).
At the retreat, we will update our strategic plan priorities. Should we invite
the membership to this meeting? Amy will ask Peter House to facilitate again,
as he did four years ago.
b.
Invitation: SEIU Faculty Forward Nov. 19 conference at UW
Tacoma William W. Philip Hall (WPH), 9 to noon, for all paid members. From 1 to
4, there will be a symposium on lecturer issues as well, same location. The
symposium is open to all.
3.
Welcome
Jim Bakken, AAUP Pacific Northwest Lead
Organizer
a.
Bio: He started organizing with
unions in 1999, went through the AFL/CIO union organizing program, where he was
sponsored by AFSCME in Indiana. Went to work for UFCW retail local in Chicago
for five years, where he served as director during the latter half of his
tenure there. Then to AFT in Illinois for several years, then moved to AFT in
Wisconsin, where he worked to win faculty rights in the U Wisconsin system.
They won rights in 2009, and then suddenly lost them in 2011 when Scott Walker
became governor. At that UW he organized
a number of campuses, and led a drive at UW Eau Claire. Things in Wisconsin
went sour in relation to unionizing, so he and his wife (who is also a union
organizer) moved to Oregon, where he went to work for SEIU 503, public
sector/home care/childcare workers.
4.
Do we want an AAUP Regents Watch this year? Next meetings TH Nov. 10 in the HUB
334 [Rob will attend], then TH Dec. 8 in the Petersen Room of the Allen
Library. Sign up to speak here: https://www.washington.edu/regents/meetings-information/request-to-provide-public-comment/
a.
ÒWatchÓ duties include speaking at
the meeting (sign up in advance), then post a short report on what you observed
at the meeting on the AAUP list server.
b.
The Regents whose terms are up this
year (September) are William Ayer [Alaska Airlines], and Pat Shanahan [Boeing].
5.
Amy and Jay attended a higher ed policy makers gathering at the home of Gerry Pollet on 9/25/2016. They reported on the value of this
informal gathering of people who think about higher ed
state policy.
a.
Bill Lyne,
chair of United Faculty of Washington, mentioned in a sidebar his interest in
floating a legislative initiative to encourage state universities to establish
tenure lines by creating a Òmatching program.Ó Also, we would like to take him
up on his offer to do some co-lobbying. ACTION:
Amy was encouraged to follow up with Bill to find out more and how we could
help.
b.
Amy will announce the ÒStarving the
BeastÓ film to be hosted by the UW Alumni Association, Dec. 5 (7-9 pm), Kane
Hall, on the AAUP list server. ACTION:
done.
c.
Bruce Kochis
is assigning his students to follow particular higher ed
bills in the legislature this year; we can let him know which bills weÕd like
to track.
d.
Bill Lyne
was reported to be open to revising the university faculty collective
bargaining legislation to allow organizing at the school or campus level, as
long as itÕs not dividing faculty by rank. Jim Bakken can explore the topic
too. We can see if Seaquist might be interested in
this, too (if he gets elected). WFT and WEA were integrally involved last time
the legislature considered this topic. One of the unions has to own it, pay for
it, write the bill and work it, and the various stakeholder unions need to
agree. Then the Faculty Senate would have to weigh in, which could be tricky.
There is an existing Class C resolution supporting the existing Òone big unionÓ
legislation. The UW lobbyist, of course, will oppose. No bill exists yet as far
as we know.
DECISION/ACTION:
Amy will reach out to the relevant union parties to check the appetite on
revising the collective bargaining legislation. Diane will check on AFTÕs views
on this.
6.
Faculty
Senate issues (standing list)
a.
Draft executive order 64 (to
supersede the last one) was announced and is awaiting the comment period, after
which it will become the UWÕs the salary policy
i. There
is concern there has been little discussion of this policy change, although
technically it was circulated with the Faculty minutes by Mike Townsend (law,
new Faculty Senate secretary). It was appreciated that previous Executive
Orders have been virtually secret.
ii. The
Senate can object and ask for changes.
b.
What ever happened with the Dental
School bailout plan?
i. The
Dental Faculty Council voted against the bailout plan, yet it seems to have
been approved without any concern about that. The debt has grown from $29
million to $32 million. Dean Joel Berg remains in office.
ACTION:
Rob will follow up with the Dental Faculty Council.
Not discussed this time: Salary
Policy, FCFA Work on Lecturers, Fee-based masterÕs students, Research
Misconduct policy, ABB survey
7. AAUP/SEIU/United Faculty relations
a.
AAUP and SEIU relationship
We
recapped some of the history and discussed possible ways forward.
12/11/2014 AAUP board meeting with SEIU and Dawn
Tefft of AAUP; Dan & Amy have lunch with Bill Lyne
1/2015 We start ÒprobeÓ meetings with fellow
faculty to explore attitudes towards unionization
2/3/2015 Michael Young resigns UW presidency
3/25/2015, AAUP executive board adopts motion:
ÒThe UW chapter of the AAUP supports partnering with SEIU in a campaign to form
a faculty union at the UW." We start collecting PERC cards
10/13/2015, Ana Mari Cauce
becomes the 33rd president of the UW
11/2015? Faculty Excellence forms
2015-2016 various events and forums are held,
card gathering stalls
Spring 2016 we form a voluntary union; bylaws
discussions; Faculty salary policy endorsed by the Faculty Senate fails
Nov. 19, 2016 Faculty Forward founding meeting
scheduled
Jim Bakken said AAUP encourages
advocacy chapters to behave like unions even if they donÕt have formal
collective bargaining. They can negotiate agreements even absent the legal
authority. We recapped our interest in having formal relationship between AAUP
and SEIU.
SEIU Starter list of issues:
lecturer status, race/equity, Regents appointments, funding & tuition, workload/working
conditions, and Òuniversity in communityÓ (transportation, housing, childcare)
8. Housekeeping, reports & other
business:
a.
Regents
Watch assignments: Nov 10 HUB 334 Ð Rob Wood
WHO
WILL DO Dec 8 Petersen Room, Allen Library? (may be canceled)
b.
TreasurerÕs report (Bert wasnÕt
present to report)
AAUP Meeting
schedule 2015/2016 (3:30 pm to 5 pm)