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Welcome Back! It’s a Critical Semester for Our Union

Welcome Back!  TAUP hopes you all had a wonderful summer and that your fall term will be exciting and rewarding.

As we begin the new semester, we want to remind you of the importance of knowing your contract–it sets the terms for all of our working conditions, including wages, benefits, and the right to grieve. You can find them here.

 

Negotiations and Open Bargaining 

Protecting and expanding on the hard-won rights we’ve achieved over more than four decades are our key aims in the current contract negotiation–issues like healthcare costs, raises, the ability to grieve discrimination and health and safety issues, access to child care, and job security for full-time and part-time faculty are at stake.

We were hard at work this Summer, developing proposals, analyzing Temple’s finances, and meeting with the administration.  Updates on negotiations can be found here. Although we have  made progress on some issues, the administration has unfortunately put proposals on the table seeking to limit TAUP’s power to represent you and has not yet responded productively to many of our key proposals.  We need to raise our collective voice to move the administration toward a more productive approach so that we can sign a contract that properly rewards our members–who teach and advise our students, do research, and serve the university and the public.  Temple CAN do this; it has the resources. Our power to sway the administration comes from our solidarity in response. Contact our organizer, Jenna Siegel, at jsiegelaft@gmaill.com or 856-264-4130 to get plugged into our organizing efforts.

One of the best ways to get involved is to attend a bargaining session. Open bargaining offers a chance for all members of the bargaining unit to attend and witness negotiations between TAUP and the administration and offer their feedback during breaks.

This week, we have sessions Tuesday, the 27th from 12:30-5:00 and Friday, the 30th from 8:30-1:00.  If you are interested in attending all or part of these sessions, RSVP here.

 

Constituency Happy Hours  

Meet colleagues from across the university and enjoy a drink at one of the happy hours planned this week! It’s also a chance to meet colleagues who represent your constituency in TAUP, Share your experiences, have conversations about the state of negotiations, make new friends! All Happy Hours will be at the Draught Horse, 1431 Cecil B Moore Ave.

  • Tenure/Tenure Track: Tuesday, August 27th from 5:00-7:00   RSVP here.
  • NTT: Wednesday, August 28th from 4:30-6:30pm   RSVP here.
  • Adjunct: Thursday, August 29th from 5:00-7:00pm  RSVP here.

 

Labor Day Parade 

Every year, the Philadelphia AFL-CIO sponsors a Tri-State Labor Day Parade that TAUP participates in.  It’s been a great year for labor, as we have continued to fight back against the Janus decision and worked to expand labor rights, and teachers’ unions have won important victories from West Virginia to LA to, closer to home, Arcadia, where a new faculty union has been established.  Let’s gather to celebrate those victories and build solidarity for the fights to come! Details on the parade can be found here: Flyer. RSVP here.

 

TAUP Digest 2/11-2/15: Negotiations Update, Membership Meeting, Happy Hours, and Giving Back

Negotiations Update

We continue to talk with the administration about the process of negotiations and look to begin open bargaining sessions by the end of this month.  Our data and research team, contract campaign team, and organizing committee are all hard at work and welcome your participation!  Contact TAUP if you are interested!

Tenure Track (Feb. 13) and Non-Tenure Track (Feb 28) Happy Hours!

This semester, each of the TAUP Constituency Councils will be holding a happy hour event at a conveniently located venue.  It’s a great opportunity to get together with colleagues from across the University, ask questions about TAUP, meet the people who represent your constituency in the union, discuss issues that you’d like them to know about, or just have a nice time chatting with some very interesting people. Everyone in the TAUP bargaining unit is welcome, whether you’re a dues paying member or not, and the first drink is on us!

Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Happy Hour:

Wednesday, February 13th from 4-6pm

Draught Horse Pub and Grill

1431 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19121

Non-Tenure Track (NTT) Happy Hour:

Thursday, February 28th from 5-7pm

Draught Horse Pub and Grill

1431 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19121

 

General Membership Meeting

The next General Membership Meeting will be on February 15th from 2-4 p.m. in Paley Library’s Lecture Hall. Come join us to receive an update on negotiations. The TAUP members involved in the work toward negotiations are eager to listen to your questions and feedback.   RSVP to the  TAUP Office.

TAUP and Temple Student Government Give Back

The Art Hochner Travel Award, Scholarship for Children of Members, and the FAST Fund for students in need, TSG Ignite a Movement Scholarship

As we reported last September, TAUP is dedicated to helping students in our community gain access to education and our faculty to develop professionally.  Along with the FAST Fund, established by TAUP member Sara Goldrick-Rab (Education and Sociology), which has helped over 10 students in bad financial straits stay in school, and our scholarship for children of members, we have this year awarded our first two Art Hochner Travel Awards to defray travel to conferences for full-time non-tenure track and adjunct faculty, who typically do not have access to funding from their departments.

Among the inaugural recipients was Dr. Isabelle Chang, an assistant professor (teaching/instruction) in Psychology; she will be presenting  “It all adds up: A comparison of eighth-graders’ mathematics achievement around the world” at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) in Washington, D.C. next month.

The second awardee is Dr. Adam Vidiksis, assistant professor (teaching/instruction) in Music Technology and Director of the Boyer Electroacoustic Ensemble Project (BEEP).  He presented one of his compositions at the International Computer Music Conference in Daegu, South Korea in August of 2018.  Their work and photos of the teams they led can be found here.  One gratifying element of both projects is that they included Temple students, showing the crucial relationship between teaching, research, and creative activity.  The application process for this coming year can be found here; applications will be due at the end of September.

Finally, we want to call your attention to a scholarship that Temple Student Government (TSG) is establishing.  Called the Ignite a Movement Scholarship, it will provide $5,000 to a housing- and/or food-insecure student.  More information can be found here.  We urge you to donate to the FAST Fund, Ignite a Movement, or both!

Volunteer for Phone Banking

Learn how to have efficient and effective organizing conversations with your colleagues, and then put that knowledge to work by making phone calls to faculty, academic staff, and librarians. We’ll be finding out which workplace issues matter most to our colleagues, and asking them to join our union! Fridays through February and March from 12-3pm in Anderson 1138. RSVP here.

Digest: February 4 – 8, 2019, Happy Hours, Membership Drive, Phone Banking

Happy Hours!

This semester, each of the TAUP Constituency Councils will be holding a happy hour event at a conveniently located venue.  It’s a great opportunity to get together with colleagues from across the University, ask questions about TAUP, meet the people who represent your constituency in the union, discuss issues that you’d like them to know about, or just have a nice time chatting with some very interesting people. Everyone in the TAUP bargaining unit is welcome, whether you’re a dues paying member or not, and the first drink is on us!

Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Happy Hour:

Wednesday, February 13th from 4-6pm

Draught Horse Pub and Grill

1431 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19121    

Non-Tenure Track (NTT) Happy Hour:

Thursday, February 28th from 5-7pm

Draught Horse Pub and Grill

1431 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19121

 

 

TAUP Membership Drive

Have you ever asked this question at work: What can I do to change things around here?

As individuals, we may not have the status or power to implement change. This is why decades ago, TAUP was formed, because collectively through our union, we have the legal authority to bargain with the administration over many issues, including minimum salaries, raises, benefits, and working conditions.

We’ll be at the table negotiating with the administration at the end of the month. We have more power to negotiate for everyone when the administration sees that our bargaining unit members support what we’re fighting for.

 

The way support is measured is through membership numbers. If you’re not a dues paying member yet, know that by joining, you will be increasing your TAUP colleagues’ ability to represent you well.

 

TAUP is comprised of colleagues: faculty, librarians and academic professionals who are working on behalf of us all. Show your support. Join us.  

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Volunteer for Phone Banking

 

Learn how to have efficient and effective organizing conversations with your colleagues, and then put that knowledge to work by making phone calls to faculty, academic staff, and librarians. We’ll be finding out which workplace issues matter most to our colleagues, and asking them to join our union! Fridays through February and March from 12-3pm in Anderson 1138. RSVP here.