FUSA congratulates the following faculty members on earning rank & promotion:
Tonni Bacoat-Jones
Jennifer Bess
Marianne Caldwell
Patrick Cureton
Leslie Eckstein
Debarti Ghosh
Sarah Gonzalez
Fred Jaeger
Todd Joseph
Craig Kasper
Theresa Lewis
Sharon Moran
Darryl Myles
Bridget Mullen
April Muchmore-Vokoun
Kristina Nappi
Thea Nicolaides
Judith Nolasco
Laurie Pierce
Janet Sibol
Shelly Stein
Gwen Suarez
Michelle Thompson
Misty Vorder Brueggee
Congratulations to the following faculty members and thank you for serving the faculty and the college. Your term officially begins August 1, 2020.
President: Elizabeth Key-Raimer
Vice-President: David Flanigan
Dale Mabry Council: Walt Ellis, Eric Fiske, Ken McCullough, Sharon Moran, Susan Pierce-Amaral, Janet Sibol, Sheryl Sippel, Rebecca Todd, John Whitlock
Ybor Council: Jeremy Bullian, Rick Gaspar, Judy Nolasco, Tom Tankersley
Brandon Council: Kristin Heathcock, Sami Kadamani, Janet Willman
Plant City Council: Charity Freeman, Teresa Galloway
SouthShore Council: Denise Bristol, Wendy Pogoda
UFF Senators: Jeremy Bullian, TaMetryce Collins, Charity Freeman, Teresa Galloway, John Hardin, Sami Kadamani, Theresa Lewis, Ken McCullough, Bryan Shuler, Rebecca Todd
FEA Delegates: Charlene Bell, Jeremy Bullian, Lorenzo Carswell, John Hardin, Tom Tankersley. Alternates: Eric Fiske, Theresa Lewis, Rebecca Todd
Remember, all faculty are welcome at FUSA meetings. Come and participate in your union!
The updated FUSA Bylaws are now posted to the Documents & Resources page.
Our next FUSA Council Meeting is scheduled for this Friday, February 28th, Ybor Faculty Building, YFAC 226 at 9am. All are invited to attend.
The next meeting will be March 27th, same location.
Update from UFF:
HR 1 will be heard by House State Affairs Committee tomorrow morning at 8am tomorrow (Feb 13) in Morris Hall (17HOB) This bill would prohibit automatic renewal of union memberships and require members to refile paperwork every year. This is union-busting pure and simple. Please do what you can to call/email or otherwise communicate with legislators to make your view known. We are joined in opposition by our Union brothers and sisters in all areas from State Employees to Pipefitters to First Responders. Email can be reached through each member’s webpage:
The latest update from UFF:
Legislative Update 3 — Jan 24 2020
Our next FUSA Council Meeting is scheduled for Friday, January 24th, Ybor Faculty Building, YFAC 226 at 9am.
All are invited to attend.
The next meeting will be February 28th, same location.
The Governor’s State of The State address
Currently these are the bills affecting higher education:
HB613/SB1402 – the general Higher Education bill. The House version contains a clause requiring a survey about “academic freedom” on campus. The Senate version does not. There are some good things in this bill, and we hope that the Senate version can prevail.
HB6001 – Guns on Campus. This is not yet agended in the House, and there is no companion bill in the Senate. Hopefully, it will go away.
HB819/SB120 – Fee relief for graduate students. We support this, as GAs regularly pay 20-30% of their stipends in fees. They should not have to pay to work. These fees inhibit our ability to invite the best and brightest, as, often, we cannot compete with stipends from other institutions. Hopefully, these will be heard in committee.
Sign up for tracking to monitor developments and contact your representatives regarding these bills.
Unions matter! Don’t take our word for it, look at the data: NEA_Salary Isssue19
“THE UNION DIFFERENCE: Faculty at public institutions with bargaining agreements earned about $7,800 more than those teaching at institutions without contracts (Table 4). The largest advantage was seen in community colleges, where faculty with collective bargaining agreements earned nearly $19,000 more than their colleagues who teach without a union contract in the same states.”
We appreciate your support and membership in FUSA. Without it, it is clear faculty at HCC would not have made the gains in salary and favorable working conditions that we enjoy today.
More issues of NEA Advocate
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