On Thursday, June 5th, the two teams met for a second bargaining session to negotiate the effects of the implementation of the revision to the University Promotion and Tenure Guidelines, and to set salaries for the new fixed-term faculty rates. read more >

Raises are finally here! The first 2.5% COLA increase (retroactive to Feb 1, 2014 for 9 month employees and Jan.1, 2014 for 12 month employees) will be distributed in our May paychecks. According to HR, you will be paid your new COLA adjusted rate for this pay period (4/16/14---5/15/14) and will receive your retroactive pay in a separate line item in this month's check. read more >

The finalized Collective Bargaining Agreement for 2013-2015 has been released read more >

Announcements: Join PSU-AAUP in Portland's May Day March, May 1, 4 pm Shemanski Park Please join Together 4 PSU (PSU-AAUP, students, staff & part-time faculty), connecting with the community to "Fight for the Future of 'Portland's University'" We'll pass out stickers as marchers start to leave the park, then join the march! PSU-AAUP Reimburses Members for Graduation Regalia Rental! Contact PSU Office Coordinator Tita Compere, tita@psuaaup.net read more >

Focus Shifts to Deeper Changes and Reclaiming ‘Portland’s University’ read more >

The PSU-AAUP Executive Council - Ted Donlan, Bob Liebman, Anh Ly, Karen Kennedy, Mary King, Ron Narode, Eva Nuñez, Judy Patton, Patricia Schechter, Bob Schroeder, and Leanne Serbulo - voted yesterday to recommend Sunday's Tentative Agreement to members for ratification as our contract for 2013-2015 read more >

Organization & Strike Threat Get Unprecedented Gains! - Keep Contract Protections for P & T Guidelines, Past Practices - Big Shift in Number, Certainty & Length of Fixed Term Contracts - Advancement Path for APs - Raises Tied to Seniority - Retain Contract Protection for AP "Positions" - Meaningful Planning for Academic Quality - Cost of Living Increases 2.5% and 2.5%, Mid-Year as for Others - 1.5% Across the Board Faculty Comparator Adjustment - 8% Promotion Increases - Travel Fund Doubled, Faculty Enhancement Fund up 30% - Post Tenure Review Will NOT result in Changed Job Description - No Retaliation Against AAUP Members for Union Activity read more >

This message - sent at 2 am - appears to have been diverted into people's Spam folders or blocked altogether. This message was resent at 6:32am. Late this afternoon, the PSU-AAUP attorneys sent notice to the Oregon Employment Relations Board and PSU Admin that we are ready to strike, starting Weds, April 16th at 6 am. read more >

GOOD NEWS: Eight hundred people participating in a Strike Authorization Vote, 94% voting to authorize, changed the dynamic at the table. BAD NEWS: The Admin Offer Still - Guts Protections for the P & T Guidelines and Unwritten Work Policies - Fails to Provide an Advancement Path for APs - Leaves Too Many Fixed-term Faculty in Short-Term Contracts - Rejects Better Planning for Academic Quality - Fails to Keep 90% of us whole with respect to inflation, for academic year - Allows all Summer Session Budget and Pay Cuts - Refuses Bigger Promotion Raises - Etc, Etc, Etc read more >

News: Update on Mediation read more >

News 1. Nearly 800 PSU-AAUP Members Participated in Strike Authorization Vote - 94% Voted YES 2. Admin Response: SPIN + Questionable Threats - More Coming! 3. What Might we Gain by Striking, or Coming Close to a Strike? 4. A Plan to Win! read more >

PSU Faculty and APs made history, today and yesterday, turning out in huge numbers to authorize the PSU-AAUP Bargaining Team to call a strike if they see no other way to obtain a decent contract. read more >

The AAUP Bargaining team has submitted our Last, Best and Final Offer the the PSU Administration on Monday, March 3, 2014. read more >

OUTRAGEOUSLY FABULOUS INFO PICKET & WALKOUT!!! "Best PSU Rally EVER!!!!" in the words of Margaret Butler, an expert on rallies and PSU, as the long-time Exec Director of Portland's Jobs with Justice and daughter of beloved PSU Librarian, Kenneth Butler. 350 PSU Faculty and APs stayed out in the cold rain to picket and rally on Thursday, carrying signs and chanting, "Who is PSU? We are PSU!" read more >

PSU-AAUP to Formally Declare Impasse on Monday, Feb 24th Monday morning, we'll send a Declaration of Impasse to Oregon's Employment Relations Board. We'll announce it to the press, and invite them to our Info Picket and Rally on Thursday, Feb 27th, 11 - 1. read more >

The PSU Admin decided to play hardball with us this year, creating a crisis atmosphere with talk of a $15m "structural deficit" and elimination of 20% of programs by following DIckeson's program prioritization model, while pushing to strip entire articles - and big sections of others- from the contract. Although the Admin two months later reduced the $15m to $7.5M, and recently stated that only half that need come from academic budgets, academic units are still supposed to - Come up with 6% budget cut scenarios, and - Teach Summer Session with one-third the budgets available when Summer Session was independent, while "producing as much SCH" as ever. read more >

NEWS: Point-by-Point Refutation of PSU Admin's Weak, Jan 30th Response to PSU-AAUP's Open Letter Outlining Our Reasons for Skepticism of the Admin Case for a $15 Million "Structural Deficit." read more >

The spin machine is in full gear at PSU - in the Admin's Thursday e-mail blast, on the Budget website, and in Pres Wiewel's remarks to PSU's incoming Board. read more >

Just today, Jan 27th, we finished our 5th day-long mediation session, and can tell you that mediation - in the form prescribed by Oregon's Employment Relations Board - is an EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING exercise of communicating through a third party with no experience or knowledge of the University. read more >

News: Will We Have to Strike? Current Status of Bargaining read more >