Patriot-News article on retrenchment talks

Below is a Patriot-News (Harrisburg) story on retrenchment talks.  It was interesting to see the Patriot-News site this blog as a source.  Check out the full story with readers comments HERE. Pennsylvania universities’ faculty members, managers to talk about layoffs By JAN MURPHY, The Patriot-News February 25, 2010, 5:24PM Faculty layoffs will be a topic of [...]

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some basic information about a retrenchment

John Riley put together a basic outline of the process of retrenchment and faculty rights under retrenchment.  Obviously, there are many more important questions that need to be answered, but I think this is a good guide to some immediate questions.  I did add this to the “Know Your Contract: Article 29″ post, but it [...]

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update from Steve Hicks: retrenchment discussed at state meet and discuss

Hey all, “Breaking” news: this is the internal report on today’s State Meet and Discuss meeting in Harrisburg: From the President’s Desk – Since last summer, APSCUF leadership has tracked and prepared for possible retrenchment plans from PASSHE; in fact, there have been two directives from the contract department guiding local leaders on how to [...]

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Know Your Contract: Article 29 “Retrenchment”

Given the current discussions and rumors regarding retrenchment, I thought it would make sense to devote a “Know Your Contract” post to understanding Article 29 “Retrenchment” in our Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). While I am sure there will be no shortage of updates on the budget, cuts, and retrenchment on this blog, I want to [...]

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Budget presentation 1

So, today’s budget presentation began with Cevallos saying “no decisions have been made yet about cuts.” How he can say that given that cuts were announced this morning is beyond me.

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here come the cuts

This morning all members of our department got an email from our Chair relaying a simple message: Our dean told her that the Provost wants our department, English, to cut an ADDITIONAL 10 classes out of our schedule.  This is after we have ALREADY cut 8 classes. If you want to play games, you could [...]

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APSCUF President Steve Hicks responds

Hey all…I am reposting APSCUF President Steve Hicks comment to my previous post because I want to make sure everyone sees it.  This is critical folks.  Here’s Hicks’s comment: Kevin, Since you asked for my comments, here they are – Your first respondent is right about what happened: having alerted the Chancellor’s office that we [...]

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retirement incentive?!? retrenchment?!?

OK.  I need to preface this post.  The full story of what I’m posting below has not been established yet.  However, I think you’ll see why I’m posting it.  Please read knowing that I cannot absolutely confirm this is actually what happened at last weeks negotiations regarding the potential of a retirement incentive. In any [...]

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updates from Legislative Assembly

Hey all, I just wanted to let you know that I’ve posted two updates to the APSCUF-KU Delegates blog: LA update: two motions introduced by KU/Mahoney LA update: retirement Let me know if you have any questions!

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