ANNOUNCEMENTS

Next Chapter Meeting on Friday in NES 103

The next Chapter Meeting will be on this coming Friday, October 7, at noon, on USF Tampa, on the west side of campus, in the Natural & Environmental Science Building, room 103. (NES is the big glass thing looming over the old Chemistry Building; see the campus map). As always, there will be sandwiches, snacks, sodas, and sweets. Come check us out.

United Faculty of Florida Ratifies the Tentative Agreement

During the last three weeks, the USF Chapter of the United Faculty of Florida conducted a referendum on a Tentative Agreement bargained by UFF (representing YOU) and the USF Administration (representing the USF Board of Trustees). Once this Tentative Agreement is ratified by both sides, it becomes the Collective Bargaining Agreement - the contract - between the UFF USF employees and their employer, the USF Board of Trustees.

The results are in, and of 415 valid votes cast (by 1,673 employees in the UFF USF Bargaining Unit), 409 were in favor of ratification and six against. As a result, the United Faculty of Florida has ratified the Tentative Agreement.

Thanks to all who voted. The ball is now in the Board's court, and we should hear from them within three weeks.

Join UFF Today!

Bargaining a legally enforceable contract (and enforcing it) is part of what a union is for. But it is also all of us, standing together, for ourselves and our university. So join today! Download, fill in, and send in the membership form.

LOGISTICS

Chapter Meeting Friday, October 7, at noon on USF Tampa in NES 103.

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