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General Membership Meeting Agenda (on Feb 23)
February 9, 2017
Dear Colleagues:
I’m sending this email to announce the upcoming General Membership meeting of the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition (NTFC Local #6546), to be held at 5:30 on February 23rd, 2017 in room 29 of the McKinley Foundation, located at the corner of 5th and Daniel St. in Champaign.
We will update the members on the state of our union and discuss our ongoing efforts to implement the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Other proposed agenda items include:
- Reporting on our budget, dues collection, and reimbursements for those who responded to our invoices;
- Voting on a proposed constitutional amendment to clarify/revise language within the constitution itself (see proposed revisions);
- Announcing dates and outlining nomination procedures for upcoming Officer elections; and
- Discussing opportunities to serve on standing and new committees, including the Stewards Council, which has just formed, and the Organizing Committee, which has several projects ongoing.
Finally, we will discuss how and when the union should take official stances on political/social issues and/or endorse political candidates.
The General Membership meeting is open to members of Local #6546 only, but we will have membership cards available at the door for any bargaining unit members who wish to join the union at this point.
I hope to see you all there!
Dennis Dullea
Communications Chair, NTFC Local #6546
[NTFC Presents] Letters from the Front: Tom McKinney and Sentry Hill • Philip Johnston (Dept. of Dance)
Friday, Sept. 30, 3 pm, McKinley Foundation, Room 29.
(5th and Daniel St. Champaign)
Bring your colleagues and friends to Phillip Johnston’s presentation on the research for the play “Tom”. You will enjoy learning about everything that goes into researching, writing and performing a play as a professional.
The play is based on the correspondence, photographs and diaries of Tom McKinney, a member of the Irish fusiliers in World War I. This past summer, it saw a highly successful staging in Belfast, and plans are underway to bring it to the Krannert Center soon.
NTFC PRESENTS :: New Speaker Series Showcases Member Research
Announcing a new series of Friday talks by NTFC members!
With the Fall semester in full swing, NTFC is starting a new initiative, simply titled NTFCPresents, highlighting our members research and creative activity as members of the University community. We will be hosting three presentations from colleagues in different fields in the Fall and are planning a similar number of presentations during the Spring Semester.
Our lineup for the Fall Semester:
September 30th at 3 pm at McKinley (room 29), Philip Johnston (Dept. of Dance) will speak about researching, writing, and staging his play “Tom”. Learn more from the attached flyer about Philip’s newest work, which has already seen considerable success in Ireland and which we hope to see at the Krannert soon.
November 4th, noon (location tba) Ed Maclin (Beckman Institute) will take us on a“Random Walk through the Brain.”
December 2, 3 pm (location tba), Dorothee Schneider (Dept. of History) will talk about“Faculty Unions: Is there a History?”
All talks are open to members of the university community. So if you have interested colleagues or students, they are welcome to join us for these presentations.
We will send you a separate flyer on each of these events, but mark your calendars now for this exciting series of presentations by NTFC members!
Press Release: University of Illinois Faculty Union ratifies first ever contract
May 5, 2015 —
For immediate release:
By an overwhelming majority, the members of the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition (NTFC) Local #6546 ratified its first ever contract with the University of Illinois administration on Thursday, May 5th. The five-year contract, which runs until August 2019, covers all full-time clinical, teaching and research faculty on the U of I main campus, except those affiliated with its Law, Veterinary and Medical Schools.
The contract provides NTT faculty with three month advance notice rights, prior to the beginning of the semester and gives long term faculty at least one year of extra job security beyond the duration of their current one year contract. Participation in the Compression, Market, Equity and Retention program (CMER) formerly limited to tenure track faculty, and basic protection of academic freedom are also part of the agreement. In addition, the contract contains provisions that will regularize NTT participation in faculty governance in the coming years.
Shawn Gilmore, President of NTFC, stated “I’m incredibly pleased that our members fought for and have now ratified a contract that will stabilize the working lives of non-tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. With the support of our partner unions, as well as faculty and students from throughout the campus community and beyond, our union has been able to settle a contract that will ensure that these faculty members have the kind of long-term support they deserve.”
NTFC Local #6546 was certified by the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board in July of 2014 and began contract negotiations in October of that year. After eighteen months of meetings with very little result, union members went on a two-day strike on April 19 and 20th. The labor agreement was reached late on April 30, after NTFC members and their many supporters had walked out a second time, a week after the first strike.
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