By Leanne Serbulo, VP for Collective Bargaining
In today’s session, we finalized language describing when a continuous appointment (for non-tenure track instructional faculty) could be terminated. This took up about half of our day, but making sure that contract language is as clear and precise as possible is an important part of bargaining. In traditional negotiations, teams also invest a lot of time into crafting, clear language, but this is usually done apart and away from the table, either in our prep meetings or in caucuses. In Interest Based Bargaining, the teams write the language together. While this process can feel unwieldy, in the long run, it can lead to a stronger, shared understanding of what the language means, which will should result in less conflict and misunderstanding once the article is implemented.
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