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How unions help everyone

Written by LEO. Posted in Perspectives

"Michigan unions assisted in the improvement of the lives of its members and families, the nation and the world by establishing improved collective bargaining techniques, better and safer working conditions and equal opportunity ..."

Read more: Viewpoint: Unions have helped lift up Michiganians, by Pamela Brown Goodacre, Mlive.com.

Pamela Brown Goodacre is a Lecturer teaching in the Comprehensive Studies Program at UM-Ann Arbor, and is a trustee with the Charter Township of Kalamazoo.

Lecturer wins teaching innovation prize

Written by LEO. Posted in News

Antonio (Tony) Alvarez, Lecturer I, School of Social Work, UM-Ann Arbor, is among the 2013 winners of the Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize (TIP).

“The five creative projects developed by faculty demonstrate effective ways to inspire students and engage them in learning,” Provost Phil Hanlon says. “The collection of innovative teaching projects that faculty are pursuing across the university is impressive.” 

Read more: Five honored for teaching innovations, Kevin Brown, The University Record.

Teaching quality does not account for pay difference

Written by Ian Robinson. Posted in Perspectives

Critics of higher education’s growing reliance on nontenure-track (NTT) faculty for undergraduate teaching routinely assert that NTT faculty are inferior teachers, and, therefore, that the quality of undergraduate education is deteriorating. This is true even of critics such as Marc Bousquet, the author of How the University Works (2008), who see themselves as friends of exploited NTT faculty and supporters of efforts to organize them into unions.

I think that these critics are wrong, and that their error has two important negative consequences: first, it devalues the work that NTT faculty do; and second, it impedes our understanding of one of the major successes of the “neoliberal” model – that it has been able to introduce a two-tiered faculty system in which many newer faculty are paid half or less of what the top tier is paid per class, without dramatic decline in the quality of undergraduate education that would de-legitimize the two-track system.

Read the rest: Are Nontenure-Track Faculty Worse Teachers? The Short Answer Is No. Shanker Blog.

U announces five new labor agreements

Written by LEO. Posted in News

The University of Michigan is reporting that five campus unions have ratified recently negotiated tentative agreements.  In addition to LEO, the agreements are with AFSCME, GEO, House Officers Association, and the Michigan Nurses Association. All the agreements run for either four or five years, and were ratified ahead of the so-called Right-to-Work law's activation.  See Campus unions ratify new collective bargaining agreements, University Record, 27 Mar. 2013.

LEO members ratify agreement by wide margin

Written by LEO. Posted in News

The Tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Lecturers' Employee Organization and the University of Michigan administration has been ratified by a majority of 93.5% of valid ballots. The ballots were counted late Thursday afternoon at the union's office in Ann Arbor.  The agreement is for five years.  It goes into effect upon the union's notification to the University of a successful ratification vote. 

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LEO issues press release on ratification

Written by Lila Naydan. Posted in Press Kit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, March 21, 2013 (7:30 PM)

University of Michigan Lecturers Ratify Labor Contract

Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint, MI  - The Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO), the union that represents 1500 Lecturers at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dearborn campuses, has overwhelmingly voted to ratify a new contract with the University of Michigan (UM).  With 93.5% of the submitted votes supporting ratification, the fourth contract includes wage increases over the next five years and increased job security.

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