FNTFO General Membership Minutes
October 9, 2013
Present: Sarah Rescoe, David Griffith, Cindy Fitzwilliams-Heck, Gerald T. Evans, Laurie Nelson, Kristin Lennon, Mary Baxter, Jean Walling, Lilia Caserta, Cynthia Milligan, Ken Main, Bernadette Fox, Denise Cosper, Linda Sherwood, John W. Johnson, Anna Rizzo, Jerry Nickles, Thuy Karafa, Dharma Shetty, Mary Bacon, TJ Lakin
Welcome President Anna Rizzo
Introduction of Officers:
President Anna Rizzo (biology); Vice President TJ Lakin (communications); Secretary Linda Sherwood (Language & Literature); Treasurer Dharma Shetty (math); Grievance Chair Beth Reynolds (Language and Literature), Contract Review Chair Cynthia Fitzwilliams-Heck (biology); Event organizers Lilia Caserta, Mary Bacon and Thuy Karafa; and academic senate Bernadette Fox.
Contract Maintenance Update
- Insurance Bridge – no longer need Corbra for nonworking summer session
- Service award committee – union members will be recognized for years of service
- Initial restructuring of CAS evaluation tool completed – still not in final form
- New tenure positions – adjunct members will not be converted to the positions
Speakers:
Gary Huey, FSU Historian, how the FFA came to be and the struggles
Jon Curtis, AFT, impact of new Affordable Care Act
Current FNTFO issues:
- Adjuncts excluded from department votes
- Adjuncts excluded from hiring committees
- Adjunct 3 possible extinction in future
Committee reports
- Contract revision
- Membership chair
- Union stewards
- Web site maintenance