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DAY SEVEN -- 6 NOVEMBER 2000
STATUS OF NEGOTIATIONS:
Negotiations ended on Monday morning at about 4:00 AM. Talks will resume later today at about noon.
Almost all outstanding non-financial language issues have been settled. Late on Sunday, the administration tabled a new salary offer. It goes some way to meeting our demands. However, it still leaves out a subset of the bargaining unit, and the administration still insists that it will not negotiate its salary offer nor the other outstanding financial issues: it is take it, or leave it.
What follows is the up side:
The administration salary offer would kick in in April 2001 (medium end loading); it would give steps as follows: Master's prepared Full Professors; 3 steps; Ph.D's: 4 steps. The language to cap insured benefits has been withdrawn; professional development allowances would go to about $400 per year.
What follows is the down side:
- Master's Prepared Associate Professors – 1 step
- Nothing for Librarians
- Nothing for Assistant Professors and Lecturers without Ph.D.s
- Per Course stipends (payment for sessionals) would be $3800 (already offered) and does not move to meet MUNFA's proposal of $4500.
- No change in administration proposals regarding distance education.
- No movement on the 6 course loads (this affects Corner Brook, Education, Social Work, Classics, Music, and perhaps one or two other units; everyone else has V5 course loads and less).
- No severance
- No change in travel money
- No banked time
THE THEME OF OUR STRIKE IS FAIRNESS FOR ALL. WE HAVEN'T AS YET ACHIEVED THAT GOAL. BUT, IF WE ARE STRONG NOW, WE WILL GET THERE.
