October 18, 2002, Town Meeting page
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CIS Auditorium
University of South Florida chapter
United Faculty of Florida

All the materials

Agenda
Special rules
Proposed collective-bargaining resolution
Proposed bargaining-issues resolution
Pizza!

Agenda

The following is the proposed order for the town meeting, with time limits for each item:

Welcome, introduction, (4 minutes)
Approval of agenda and special rules
Resolution on collective bargaining certification (15 minutes)
Resolution on bargaining issues (40 minutes)
USF strategic plan discussion (15 minutes)
Issues from the floor (15 minutes)
Adjournment

Note: As this Town Meeting is open to all in-unit people, whether or not they are members of the United Faculty of Florida, the resolutions of this meeting are advisory.

Special rules

The following are proposed exceptions to Robert's Rules of Order to make the town meeting run more smoothly:

No dead motions: All motions will be voted on at the expiration of the time allotted to them, as if the body had called the question (including both amendments and main motion).
All motions in writing: All main motions and amendments shall be submitted in writing to the chair. Main motions and amendments that are proposed by voice only, and not in writing, will be ruled out of order.
3 minutes per speaker: Each speaker shall have a maximum of three minutes to speak to the motion, but the meeting can give unanimous consent to an additional minute (and an additional minute at any time). Speakers may not reserve the balance of the allotted time to speak later.
Limited amending: Each resolution will have a limited number of amendments that can be considered on the floor. There can only be one amendment that can be proposed and seconded for each resolution, with the exception of the resolution on bargaining priorities. The resolution on bargaining priorities may have three amendments proposed.
All bargaining-issues amendments must be substantive: Proposed amendments to the bargaining resolution must concern the substance of priorities rather than the written mechanics or rhetoric of the resolution.
"Committee of the Whole" for strategic-plan discussion: At the discretion of the chair, the town meeting may operate as a committee of the whole for composition of a resolution on the proposed university strategic plan.

Collective-bargaining resolution

The following is the proposed resolution on collective bargaining representation, which will come to the floor already moved and seconded:

The USF-UFF bargaining-unit town meeting held on October 18, 2002 , hereby asks the United Faculty of Florida and its affiliates to take all legal means necessary to protect the collective-bargaining rights of faculty at the University of South Florida.

Bargaining-issues resolution

The following is the proposed resolution on bargaining issues, which will come to the floor already moved and seconded:

The USF-UFF bargaining-unit town meeting held on October 18, 2002 , hereby asks the bargaining committee of the USF chapter of the United Faculty of Florida to research and propose language to advance the following goals in enforceable, grievable provisions of a collective bargaining agreement that go beyond the existing collective bargaining agreement:

(1) elected faculty governance at the university as a whole and, in addition, in each college and department and on each campus;

(2) the definition of just cause for firing a tenured faculty member through a concrete, exclusive list and the explicit prohibition against firing a faculty member for "disruption" that is the responsibility of a third party;

(3) maintenance of the existing proportion of employees in the bargaining unit who are on tenured or tenurable lines and negotiation with the university over increasing that proportion in the future;

(4) provision of more security for non-tenured faculty and employees by having multi-year contracts for all non-tenure-earning faculty and professional employees in the bargaining unit who have more than 6 years of continuous service;

(5) parity among faculty and professional employees in tenure and non-tenure lines with regard to the infrastructure and other support the university provides to complete written assignments, including support for grant-writing, teaching, advising, and sabbatical and professional leave opportunities;

(6) funding of raises earned by soft-money faculty and professional employees to be guaranteed;

(7) an explicit prohibition against the increase in a class's size without additional resources for a faculty member teaching that class that is sufficient to maintain the same quality of education as existed previously;

(8) a doubling of existing opportunities for sabbaticals and professional leaves;

(9) tuition- and fee-free attendance of a spouse or domestic partner and dependent children for one degree each; and

(10) significant enhancement of both merit-pay and across-the-board raises.

Pizza!

There will be pizza at the town meeting. E-mail your preferred topping today! (No guarantees that we can order things like pizzas with 20 toppings or goat cheese, okay?)