Following the Respect Rally on April 21, 2022, we will be getting ready to bargain for higher wages. During our Money Talks listening sessions, it became painfully obvious that Lecturers at EMU have at best had stagnant wages for the past 10 years.

In fact, the base minimum rate for PTLs in 2011 would be the equivalent of $1431 today. The effective base minimum per credit hour rate today is $1288. This means that for any 3-credit hour class, a PTL earning just the base minimum rate makes the equivalent of $450 less than in 2011. For FTLs the situation is similarly abysmal: adjusted for regular inflation, FTL pay has stayed stagnant, reflecting close to 0% pay raise over 10 years.

In June we will have the opportunity to change this. Please be sure to check your emails for further information on bargaining days, rallies, and other actions we will take to draw attention to our fight for more equitable pay.

The EMUFT Lecturers Awards Review and Selection Committee is excited to announce and congratulate the following individuals as winners of the 2021 FTL & PTL Teaching Awards:

Full-Time Lecturer Award:

James Krolik, College of Business, Management

Part-Time Lecturer Awards:

• College of Arts & Sciences

Andrew Antis, History and Philosophy

Ashley Wilson, Biology

• College of Business

Andreia de Carvalho Gendera

• College of Education

Linda Foran, Leadership and Counseling

• College of Health & Human Services (no submission)

• College of Technology (no submission)

A special thank you also to the selection committee members who reviewed the awards submission materials: Theresa Crnkovich (COE), Sue Yarrington-Young (COB) and Tony Kurk (COB).

Please consider nominating one of your colleagues (or yourself) for the 2022 teaching award. Nominations will open around Christmas. If you are interested in serving on the EMUFT Lecturers Awards Review and Selection Committee, please email emuft9102@gmail.com

We are excited to share with you that EMUFT voted to endorse the HELU Organizational Framework during the EMUFT Union Council meeting on April 14, 2022.

Higher Education Labor United (HELU) is a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast higher education labor movement, representing over 532,000 higher education workers from 131 union locals and organizations across the US, including EMUFT. As a local we have endorsed the HELU Vision Platform and were sponsors of the HELU Winter Summit.

HELU has also furnished us with a solidarity statement for the Respect Lecturers Campaign and HELU member organizations have been circulating our Ally Petition among their members for the past few weeks.