The Florida Auditor General’s Report No. 2016-175 Financial Audit (March 2016) (page 43) reveals that UNF computes the total pension liability by assuming that UNF employees (including faculty) receive an annual increase in salary of 3.5% (including an inflation adjustment of 2.6% percent). The result is that the total amount put into “reserves” is based on an estimate for a raise, even when all faculty do not receive a raise. These allocations to pension liability lock up recurrent funds that are no longer available for other uses at UNF.
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Your intellectual property belongs to you and is protected
The following is excerpted from Article 14.14 Development/Use of Instructional Technology of the 2014-2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement between UNF and UFF:
14.14 (e) Property Rights and Releases.
(1) Working Papers Rights. Consistent with law and other applicable provisions of this Agreement and the legitimate interests of the University, faculty members shall have the right to control of their personal correspondence, notes, raw data, and other working papers related to teaching materials, including instructional technology materials.
(2) Independent Works. Consistent with law and other applicable provisions of this Agreement, a work made in the course of independent efforts is the property of the faculty member, who has the right to determine the disposition of such work and the revenue derived from such work. As used in this Section, the term “independent efforts” means that: a. the ideas came from the faculty member b. the work was not made with the use of appreciable University support, and c. the University is not held responsible for any opinions expressed in the work.
Article 25 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement clarifies the rights of faculty and the University to teaching materials and products of scholarship. Faculty control all materials for teaching.
What it means to be a public employee in a “right to work” state
Florida, like many other states, has a constitutional “right to work” provision. While these right-to-work laws grant collective bargaining through a union that represents all of its constituents (members of the union or not), they do not guarantee the continuation of particular positions or a living wage. Conversely, right to work laws prohibit public employees from striking. Hence, unions in right to work states have significantly curtailed leverage in bargaining. Our union’s strength–at the bargaining table and beyond–comes from our membership; each additional member strengthens our ability to bargain for better work conditions.
For further reading and information, see the links below:
Poverty, Productivity, and Public Health: The Effects of “Right to Work” Laws on Key Standards of Living
http://www.nea.org/home/52880.htm
Florida State Constitution on right to work.
“Right-to-work” states still have lower wages.
http://www.epi.org/publication/right-to-work-states-have-lower-wages/
Deceptive Right to Work Laws Hurt Everyone.
Pennsylvania State System on Strike
Thanks to UCF’s UFF Chapter for providing the template from which this was produced.
Lowest Paid Faculty at UNF
There are 13 of our UNF faculty colleagues on 9-month contracts making less than $46,000 after an average of 12 years of employment (based on a median start date of August 2004).
There are seven of our UNF faculty colleagues on 12-month contracts making less than $56,000 after an average of 13 years of employment (based on a median start date of August 2003).
This table represents faculty from Biology, Chemistry, English, Exceptional Deaf and Interpreter Education, Math and Statistics, and Physics.
| Instructors (9-month) who make < $46,000 | ||||
| Salary | Rank Date | |||
| $45,838 | 8/7/2007 | |||
| $45,663 | 12/21/2001 | |||
| $45,269 | 8/9/2004 | |||
| $44,825 | 8/7/2006 | |||
| $44,688 | 7/1/2012 | |||
| $44,492 | 5/4/2004 | |||
| $43,681 | 8/9/2004 | |||
| $42,563 | 8/13/2007 | |||
| $41,884 | 8/8/2005 | |||
| Senior Instructors (9-month) who make < $46,000 | ||||
| Salary | Rank Date | |||
| $45,768 | 8/8/2001 | |||
| $45,667 | 8/9/2004 | |||
| $44,940 | 1/2/2000 | |||
| $43,461 | 8/9/2004 | |||
| Lecturers (12-month) who make < $53,667 | ||||
| Salary | Rank Date | |||
| $49,642 | 8/7/2006 | |||
| $46,865 | 8/7/2005 | |||
| Senior Lecturers (12-month) who make < $56,000 | ||||
| Salary | Rank Date | |||
| $55,929 | 8/8/1999 | |||
| $54,567 | 8/8/1999 | |||
| $53,872 | 8/9/2003 | |||
| $52,923 | 8/8/2000 | |||
| $48,328 | 8/7/2005 | |||
UNF Salaries Compared to others in SUS
Did you know?
Among the 11 established State University System schools in Florida, UNF ranks last in average faculty salary (NEA Higher Education Advocate, March 2016 issue). When corrected for cost of living, UNF’s average faculty salary still ranks 9th out of 11.
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