By Scott Laderman
UEA Contract Administrator

We have lately been addressing an issue in the College of Education and Human Service Professions (CEHSP) that, when positively resolved, will benefit nearly the entire faculty of that college.

(3/13/14)  Your negotiation team met with district management on February 21 and March 7.  Here is an update of where we are in negotiating our next contract.

Read all of the latest happenings in our Spring 2014 Edinburg AFT newsletter

The Union side of the Health Care Cost Containment Committee has composed the following informational letter addressing concerns related to HEP compliance.

To read the letter, follow this link: HCCCC Letter

(3/6/2017) CFE invited  CFT Training Director Laura Kurre and Political Organizer Jessica Ulstad to an all-day retreat on February 28, 2014 for a strategic, union building workshop for the Executive Board. CFE is dedicated to improving union outreach by learning new ways of expanding communications.

Topics that were discussed included budgeting, outreach and communications, as well as future goals. Our focus was setting SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) goals and tactics to reach new and current members.

Click HERE for the Comptroller's memorandum regarding the decrease in the General Services Adminstration milage reimbursement rate from 56.5 cents to 56.0 cents.

By Lori Melton*
UMD Office of External Relations

What started as a simple conversation has evolved into a lifelong quest for Shannon Walsh, an assistant professor of Political Science at UMD.

Here are some of the more common questions we get about UEA and membership. If you have other questions, please contact us directly.

Q: What services does UEA provide to faculty?

 A: UEA’s primary task is to negotiate the contract (the collective-bargaining agreement). We also implement and enforce the contract.

Q: What has UEA done for the faculty lately?

By John Hamlin
UEA President Elect

I have an idea: To increase our graduation rates and make sure students are as productive as possible; let’s require all students to take 20 credits a semester.  I know, some already do, so why not bring the rest up to that level?   We can then provide a mechanism by which a students can buy down the course load if they can demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that they are already working too much in some other aspect of their professional student life.