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Approximately 25% of the LEO bargaining unit are part-time lecturers with appointments in the range of 50-79%. Under the UM's proposed new health care premium schedules, these part-timers -- many among the lowest paid members of the bargaining unit -- will face enormous increases in their benefits contributions (not to mention in co-pays). Or, to put it another way, if the university administration gets its way, LEO part-timers will have their total compensation slashed by double-digit percentages. The chart below shows that the benefits premium increases proposed by the administration would, in effect, reduce the real earnings of a part-time lecturer earning only $25K a year by over 10%. This is in sharp contrast to the reductions for full-time employees earning three times or six times as much.
The second bar chart shows the impact of the premium increases for lecturers on the three campuses who teach a 75% appointment at the minimum salary rate for Lecturers I and II on that campus. The minimum FTEs are $25K in Flint, $26K in Dearborn, and $32K in Ann Arbor.
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