FA ratifies tentative agreement

FA members voted to ratify the tentative agreement with the administration today.  Of the 138 who turned out to vote, 95% voted to approve the agreement.  The 130 131 yes votes made for a majority of all FA members--though all that was required was for a majority of those voting to approve the agreement. With final ratification by the SIU board of trustees, presumably at their December 8 meeting in Carbondale, the 17 month process to get a new contract will at last be complete. Let's hope it doesn't take as long next time around.

After the break, a press release we sent around announcing the results.

FA General Membership Meeting Monday

A reminder that the FA is holding a general membership meeting on Monday at 5:00 in Engineering A111, to discuss the tentative agreement. To refresh your memory, I again paste below links to documents on the agreement.

Summary of the tentative agreement:

http://siucfa.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ta-precis-18-nov.pdf

Full text of tentative agreement with changes highlighted:

http://siucfa.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ta-with-highlights-final.pdf

Back to work agreement:

http://siucfa.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/back-to-work-agreement-final.pdf

Help with the tentative agreement

We've put together a couple of documents to help people review the tentative agreement.  One is a précis which summarizes changes since the last contract and ties them to bargaining objectives. The second is a version of the tentative agreement in which changes since the last agreement are highlighted.  Both are available over on the FA website's page on bargaining.