AAUP Negotiations
Negotiations news archives:
Sept. 13, 2006: The faculty union has accepted EMU's offer for fact-finding. All classes for the fall semester will continue. Read the press release.
EMU's Sept. 13 offer to the faculty union is here.
Sept. 11, 2006: The strike has been suspended. All classes are under way. The faculty will meet at noon to discuss details of EMU's latest offer. Read the press release.
Sept. 8, 2006: EMU has posted the details of its Sept. 5 offer to the AAUP.
Sept. 5, 2006: EMU has provided a comparison of the details of its best and final offer, vs. the AAUP's counterproposal. Download the PDF file here.
Sept. 5, 2006: EMU terminated negotiations as AAUP rejected "last, best offer."
Sept. 3, 2006: Sunday night, EMU issued a letter to the AAUP demanding that they put students first.
Sept. 1, 2006: Thursday night, EMU faculty walked out of negotiations and declared an illegal strike. EMU filed an unfair labor practice as a result of the faculty's actions. EMU remains committed to continuing the negotiations and establishing a fair and competitive contract. Visit this site for the latest information and updates on negotiations.
Aug. 30, 2006: EMU and the AAUP began meeting with the mediator that EMU had requested from MERC.
Health Care FAQs and Planning Spreadsheets allow you to calculate your individual health care costs based on the two available EMU plans.
View the FAQs online here. You can download the FAQs as a Word document here.
Download the Planning Spreadsheets, which contain
instructions to help you project your annual health
care costs and determine which plan would work
best for you:
Single
person subscriber (Excel file)
Two-person
family (Excel file)
Family
of more than two people (Excel file)
Eastern Michigan University and the EMU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) began formal negotiations June 9, 2006 to work out a new collective bargaining agreement.
This web site will be the official source of news and information regarding the negotiations. All members of the EMU community may login to this site using their my.emich username and password.
Information on this web site currently includes press releases, a description of the bargaining process, summaries of the negotiating sessions, and a glossary of terms. You may access this information by using the navigation bar on the left side of this page. Additional information will be included here as the process continues.
Any questions regarding the negotiations process should be referred to the office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Donald Loppnow, 106 Welch Hall, 734.487.3200.
