Update on RAFO Contract Negotiations with Roosevelt University
Expanding academic freedom rights to new hires teaching their first semester at RU.
Allowing qualified adjuncts who gets “bumped” out of a course to be assigned a course in a different department, provided they have demonstrated experience teaching that course in another school.
Restoring a locked office for union record storage and privacy.
Expanding business leave funds, allowing more professional development for RAFO members.
Demanding RAFO members be informed of student complaints lodged against them in writing prior to any meeting taking place in reference to such a student complaint.
Requiring all departments hold one meeting with adjuncts per semester, either by themselves or with other department members, in person and via videoconference.
Increasing the hourly rate for all required meetings.
Increasing pay and protections for adjuncts who create a new class or are forced to adapt a class from one mode of teaching to another (i.e., from in-person to online or vice versa).
Shortening the number of semesters taught to allow newer adjuncts to get raises faster.
Increasing pay per class, to keep wages competitive with other area universities while helping make wages that match cost of living increases and years of no raises at RU.
