Recent Accomplishments and Other Membership Benefits
Recent accomplishments and other membership benefits are included below:
- Legal representation, on both the professional and personal level (members may consult affiliated lawyers regarding Domestic/Family issues, Real Estate, Wills and Estates, Consumer concerns, and Traffic issues)
- 10% salary increase over the past three years
- Compensation for Academic Program Coordinators
- Compensation for club sponsors (i.e. PTK, Psi Beta, Environmental Club, FFEA)
- Movement to a 2-term work calendar (178 days). The union had been proposing this idea in a variety of forms for several years before the college finally agreed to the change last year.
- Successful resolution of a salary discrepancy for those faculty previously on a 170-day contract. This took a year longer to achieve than UFF-BCC had hoped for, but without the organization’s constant reminder to the administration about the inequity for these dedicated faculty members, no change would have been forthcoming.
- The ability of the faculty to work at a location other than the college on Fridays. Again, the union had proposed this work schedule adjustment at the bargaining table for many years and the college finally listened!
- Elimination of the fingerprinting requirement for full time faculty members. Because of our concerns over privacy issues and our insistence on the creation of a committee to clarify proper procedures, implementation of the fingerprinting program was delayed until the college realized it wasn’t actually necessary or even advisable.
- Improvement in the college’s maintenance of continuing education requirement
- Salary adjustments for our librarian faculty who must work longer hours on campus than the rest of the faculty
- Work schedule adjustments (25 hours on campus; 10 hours at a location other than the college)
Become An Activist
Not every member needs to be an activist - but it helps! If you want to volunteer to help you union, please contact us.
Policy on Representation of Non-members
UFF will not provide grievance representation to faculty who were not dues-paying UFF members at the time when the grievable incident occurred and who maintain their membership throughout the grievance/arbitration process.
All faculty have the right to file an individual grievance, but those who were not UFF members when the incident occurred must represent themselves or retain an attorney. UFF retains the sole and exclusive right to invoke arbitration; non-members will not automatically have the right to pursue a remedy beyond the grievance process. Additional information about the representation policy is on the membership form above.