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Spring Semester 2025 Collective Bargaining Meeting Summaries
Below is a summary of collective bargaining sessions between the UAKU and KU management negotiating teams from Spring Semester 2025. The meeting summaries list new proposals and counterproposals passed by each party as well as proposals on which the parties came to a temporary agreement.
Scheduled Collective Bargaining Sessions
- April 11, 2025
- April 22, 2025
- May 6, 2025
- May 9, 2025
Proposals on which Temporary Agreement has been reached by UAKU & KU Management
- Labor-Management meetings
- Severability
- Parties to the Agreement
- Dues Deduction
- Purpose
- Academic Freedom & Responsibility
- Notices
- Availability of Agreement
- Personnel Files
Spring 2025 Collective Bargaining Sessions
New proposals passed by UAKU:
- Reimbursements
- Parental Leave
- Modified Instructional Duties
- Sick and Shared Leaves
- Intellectual Property
- Artificial Intelligence
- Benefits to Retirees
- Facilities & Equipment
- Health & Safety
Counterproposals passed by UAKU:
- Academic Freedom & Responsibility
Counterproposals passed by KU Management:
- Union Rights
- University Rights
New Proposals passed by UAKU:
- Workload
- Sabbatical leaves
Counterproposals passed by KU:
- Facilities & Equipment
- Health & Safety
- Academic Freedom & Responsibility
Temporary agreement reached by UAKU & KU management:
- Academic Freedom & Responsibility
New Proposals passed by UAKU:
- Appointments
- Evaluations
- Promotion & Tenure
Counterproposals passed by KU:
- Voluntary Leave without Pay with Benefits
- Leaves
New proposals passed by UAKU:
- Terms of Agreement
- Compensation
- International Support Services
- Supplemental Professional Support
- Benefits
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness
- Pay Schedules
- Financial Exigency
- Academic Program Discontinuation
Counterproposals passed by KU Management:
- International Employment Support
- Availability of Agreement:
- Pay Schedules
- Benefits
- Notices
- Public Loan Service Loan Forgiveness
Counterproposals passed by UAKU:
- Health & Safety
- Facilities
- Non-discrimination
2/26/25 HLC Presentation for UAKU: Senior Vice Provost Jennifer Roberts gave a presentation on upcoming HLC site visit and invited UAKU representatives to participate in two HLC site visit special sessions with the site visitors team: (1) governance and (2) UAKU negotiating team members
3/4/25 HLC Site visit: UAKU negotiating team members participated in a session with governance leaders and a session specific for the union to speak to the collective bargaining process. KU management negotiating team members participated in a session specific to management to speak to collective bargaining process.
Counterproposals passed by KU Management:
- Benefits to Retirees
- Modified Instructional Duties
Counterproposals passed by UAKU:
- Notices
- Availability of Agreement
- Personnel Files
Counterproposals passed by KU Management:
- Financial Exigency
- Academic Program Discontinuation
- Personnel Files
Counterproposals passed by UAKU:
- Notices
- Availability of Agreement
- Personnel Files
Temporary agreement reached by UAKU & KU management:
- Notices
- Availability of Agreement
- Personnel Files
Counterproposals passed by KU Management:
- Supplemental Professional Support
- Health & Safety
- Facilities & Equipment
- Sabbatical
Counterproposals passed by UAKU:
- Modified Instructional Duties
- Benefits to Retirees