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Dec 12 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
FAM’s proposed bargaining unit would “in my role, I represent ALL faculty, and my concern is looking out for the interests of all faculty. But VAPs and TCPL don’t have the same status as TT faculty.”#FAMhearings
The Associate provost sums up: “combining these groups has the potential to dilute the power of individual voices”. The non-existent power of individual voices, you mean?
“I’m a mathematician. I think there are different and competing interests among the different categories of faculty.”
“I’m also worried about retrenchment…. “tenure line faculty could vote to put TCPLs in line for retrenchment first.” Truth: Tenure line faculty at Miami overwhelmingly (800+) urged administration NOT to let go hundreds of VAPs in 2020
“I don’t know enough to know what a collective bargaining agreement might look like. But I worry that it would lack clarity.” Actually, we lack clarity now! A contract would greatly improve clarity!
Funny how admin thinks they represent all faculty, but don’t think a union made up of faculty members could represent all faculty 🧐

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Cathy Wagner, Professor of English and president of Miami AAUP, takes the stand. Her testimony shows not only that faculty commonly change rank from VAP to TT or TCPL, but also that they continue to do the same work after they are permanently hired
VAPs are NOT “seasonal/casual employees,” Cathy shows. They are not hired at the last minute to “plug holes.” What our research shows is that faculty who start as VAPs are sometimes retained as TT or TCPL faculty, and it’s because we need them to teach the same courses
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Anne Whitesell, assistant professor of Poli Sci, takes the stand for FAM, explaining how she and the research team corrected the university’s data about visiting faculty. #FAMhearings
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Anne’s takedown of the university’s methodology includes faculty who weren’t counted as retrained but who were in fact retained, and faculty who were miscategorized according to publicly available data.
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The university’s lawyers begin their cross examination of John McNay, who clarifies that the UC bargaining unit is roughly 65% tenure eligible and 35% non tenure eligible, and librarians are included in the unit too #FAMhearings
The university lawyer seems to believe that different ranks of faculty can’t participate in bargaining on behalf of other ranks. John clarifies “We don’t see those distinctions. We are one faculty, and we understand each other’s needs perfectly well.”
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Dec 12
FAM’s first witness takes the stand!!!! UC professor and former Ohio AAUP president (and national AAUP council person) John McNay! 🔥🔥🔥
FAM: “has UC been able to to address competing interests in its labor contracts?”
John: “Yes. UC is big, and complicated. Our librarians have been in the unit for 40 years. NTT faculty have been in the unit for 49 years. I haven’t witnessed any of the conflicts” 1/
“I just don’t see the conflicts that have been described in this hearing today. In fact, when Akron wanted to eliminate 100 positions, the union decided that they would negotiate to protect NTT faculty.” #FAMhearings
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Dec 12
Provost Liz Mullenix takes the stand:
“I’ve been an administrator my whole career—27 years” #FAMhearings
“My job is to support the faculty.” What about the majority of faculty who want to be unionized under a single bargaining unit? 🧐🤨
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Dec 12
Associate Vice President for Academic Personnel Ruth Groom takes the stand. She argues that VAPs are temporary faculty and that staff who also have more than 50% teaching responsibilities are staff, not faculty
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The judge helpfully asked the university lawyers to “short course” their discussion of each and every faculty member in the hybrid faculty table 🐢
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