Please note…..just so it is crystal clear…..representatives will NOT be elected at the meetings scheduled. As Dr. Schensul indicated one of the main purposes of the upcoming meetings is to begin the process of forming a constitution, which will include how we will determine the leadership roles of the Faculty Association. Ratification of the constitution by the faculty will then lead to nomination and election of Faculty Association officers again by the full faculty. People can be nominated or even self-nominate. This was all outlined in a letter you should have all received prior to the election entitled “What happens next”. These meeting are not intended to determine the leadership; they intended to foster the process along.
What is planned: We will discuss the need to form a Constitution Committee, which will be open to all those who wish to participate. Drafts will go to all faculty for input (electronically). All faculty will vote on it. We need to form Working Groups (Basic Science/Research; Medical-Clinical; Dental-Clinical; Education [suggestions for others?] so that we can begin the process of determining what priorities need to be set for each group when it comes to contract. This is what will be discussed.
Anyone can join any committee or multiple if they like. Once faculty self-identify, then the committees will, one naturally presumes, elect a chair. Someone will need to be responsible for setting meetings…in any format that works for the group. This is not a one size fits all…..we know this. Personally, I became involved because I believed we needed a collective voice. I certainly didn’t expect that anti-union rhetoric would cease, should the vote pass. However, disparaging remarks, via intimation that some nefarious plan to disenfranchise is occurring is deeply disappointing.
I echo Dr. Sullivan in saying that we all need some patience. We all have much for which we are and should be thankful. I do believe we can do this together. But we have to work with one another, not against.
Respectfully,
Sandra Hewett
From: Bernstein,Leslie
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:19 AM
To: Ryan,Jason; Hewett,Sandra; Rothfield,Lawrence; 'Ed Marth'; Kreutzer,Donald L.; 'Brenton Graveley'; Raisz,Lawrence; Cone,Robert; Singh,Kanwar; 'mohler.william.uchcfacultydiscourse@blogger.com'; 'barbarak@uconnaaup.org'; Rosenberg,Daniel; Hansen,Marc F.; Lefrancois,Leo; Kranzler,Henry; DL-All-PI's; Azrin,Michael A.; Ferris-Senatus,Anjanette; Hager,W. David; Meng,Joyce; Pickett,Christopher; Schmitt,Heiko; Schulman,Peter; White,William B.; Campbell,Patrick; Tendler,Beatriz Raquel; Dahn,Michael; Karimeddini,Mozafareddin K.; Menzoian,James; Das,Dipak K.; Maulik,Nilanjana; Dodge,Kimberly; Yue,Lixia; Pappano,Achilles; 'barry@psychistry.uchc.edu'; Alessi,Sheila; Petry,Nancy M.; Palmisano,Joseph; Lieberman,Jay; Runowicz,Carolyn; Civetta,Joseph M.; Kozol,Robert; Dieckhaus,Kevin; Silverman,Adam; Angus,Steven; Carley,Nina; Appel,Elizabeth; Kosowicz,Lynn; Menoutis,John; Steinberg,Michael; Grasso,Joseph A.; Birk,John; 'Robbins,Jeffrey'; Shapiro,Linda; Han,David; Claffey,Kevin P.; Fong,Guo-Hua; Watras,James; Gross,Jeffrey; Lalande,Marc E.; Setlow,Peter; Tennen,Howard; Bona,Robert; Weller,Sandra K.; HEPWORTH,JERI; Allen,Scott; Coll,Patrick; Kuchel,George; Moss,Roberta; Papermaster,David S.; Kaplan,Andre; Adams,Nancy; Samson,Wilner; Foley,Raymond; Metersky,Mark L.; Sanders,M. Melinda; Whalen,James; Kanaan,Jennifer; Silverstein,Nicole; Deckers,Peter J.; Garibaldi,Karen; 'GaribaldiR'; Wilson,Lori; Chandawarkar,Rajiv; Heinen,Chris; Srivastava,Pramod K.; Li,Zihai; Hla,Timothy; Jaffe,Laurinda; Carson,John H.; Cowan,Ann; Wolfson,Leslie I.; McCullough,Louise; Albertsen,Peter C.; Koeppen,Bruce; Hewett,James; Jacob,Mary Casey; Arnold,Andrew; Winokur,Andrew; Huey,Leighton; Covault,Jonathan; Graveley,Brenton; Avelar,Erick; Vella,Anthony; Aronow,Michael S.; Rosenkrantz,Ted S.; Rosengren,Sally; Rosenstein,Myra; Rossomando,Edward F.; Rothe,Marti; Rothfield,Naomi; Rovalino,Janet; Rowe,David W.; Ruiz,Eric; Rungruanganunt,Patchnee; Ryan,Raymond W.; Safavi,Kamran; Saha,Animita; Salas,Moises; Salman,Momina; Sanders,Marilyn; Sanford,Collin; Sarkar,Shikha; Schaff,Jim; Schenkman,John B.; Scherzer,Larry; Schensul,Stephen; Schielke,Lorenz; Schincaglia,Gian Pietro; Schnatz,Peter; Schrader,Lara; Schramm,Craig; Secor,Eric; Segal,Ita; Segal,Joan V.; Senatus,Patrick; Setlow,Barbara; Shafer,David M.; Shapiro,David; Sheehan,Joseph T.; Shen,Jian-Bing; Sibley,Heather; Silverstein,Eric; Simmons,Adam; Sirop,Ariane; Slade,Karren L.; Slepchenko,Boris M.; Smilowitz,Henry; Smith,Jason; Solinsky,Susan; Somerville,Donald; Spangberg,Larz S.; Spiro,Jeffrey; Steadman,Ursula; Storey,Eileen; Stroop,Jennifer; Suchecki,Jeanine; Swede,Helen; Taghbalout,Aziz; Tangarorang,Glendo; Tannenbaum,Susan; Tanzer,Jason M.; Taylor,John; Terasaki,Mark; Thibodeau,Edward; Thrall,Roger S.; Tirnauer,Jennifer; Ton-That,Hung; Trestman,Robert; Trojian,Thomas; Turner,Garry W.; Uribe,Flavio; Vaziri,Haleh; Villagra,Victor; Vogiatzi,Theodora; Wadhwa,Sunil; Wagner,Julie; Waitzman,David M.; Wakai,Sara; Walsh,Joseph; Walsh,Stephen J.; Wan,Yuqing; Wang,Yu-Hsiung; Warren,Nicholas; Whitaker,Charles; Whitaker-Worth,Diane L.; Wolgemuth,Charles; Wu,Carol A.; Wu,Catherine; Wu,George Y.; Wu,Qian; Xu,Ren-He; Yamase,Harold; Yang,Clifford; Yaylagul,John; Ysaac,Sara; Zecevic,Nada; Zeff,Richard; Zhu,Qiang; Zou,Changping; Adler,Adam J.; Advani,Kavita; Agresta,Thomas P.; Aguila,Hector; Albreski,Douglas; Alerte,Anton; Algranati,Paula S.; Aliyu,Oluremi; Alkass,Ramzi; Almas,Khalid; Andemariam,Biree; Anderson,Joseph C.; Antic,Srdjan; Arciero,Robert; Arias,Albert; AveLallemant,Tanya; Lakshminarayanan,Santhanan; Ehlers,William; Eisenberg,Ellen; Eisenberg,Shlomo; Eisenfeld,Leonard; Rogina,Blanka; Klobutcher,Lawrence A.; DL-SODM Faculty; DL-SOM Paid Basic Science Faculty; DL-SOM Paid Clinical Faculty; DL-SOM UMG Faculty; Pachter,Joel; Vento,John A.; Agar,John R.; Grant-Kels,Jane M.; Brewer,Molly; Loew,Leslie M.; Mohler,William; Burleson,Joseph A.
Subject: RE: General Faculty Meeting
The point of the scheduled meetings that WILL take place is to elect representatives. Seems you have a great deal of "free time" to organize your own campaign. Jason, your motives are all too transparent. I think most faculty will see them for what they are.
Look, the grassroots group that organized the campaign is trying to facilitate elections. Instead of working across purposes, it would be far better for you to constructively move the process along.
Les Bernstein
At 11:12 AM 11/25/2009, Ryan,Jason wrote:
Dear Faculty:
I am composing a letter to circulate to all, and am writing to solicit your names on the letter. The statement will request the following:
- That any currently scheduled union meetings be cancelled immediately. These were not organized with the consent of the faculty and are inconvenient for too many people.
- That two temporary union representatives be elected. One from the 29-member group that signed a letter of support for the AAUP. One from the 15-member group that signed a letter opposing the AAUP. Ideally, one person would be basic science and one clinical.
- These two representatives will agree and plan all future meetings until union officers can be elected.
If you wish to have your name on the letter, please email me privately. I will send a draft for approval prior to emailing to the faculty. This is important. These meetings will determine the leadership and direction of our collective bargaining group. All voices should be heard.
Respectfully,
Jason
Jason Ryan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030
jaryan@uchc.edu
From: Bernstein,Leslie
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:55 AM
To: Ryan,Jason; Hewett,Sandra; Rothfield,Lawrence; 'Ed Marth'; Kreutzer,Donald L.; 'Brenton Graveley'; Raisz,Lawrence; Cone,Robert; Singh,Kanwar; 'mohler.william.uchcfacultydiscourse@blogger.com'; 'barbarak@uconnaaup.org'; Rosenberg,Daniel; Hansen,Marc F.; Lefrancois,Leo; Kranzler,Henry; DL-All-PI's; Azrin,Michael A.; Ferris-Senatus,Anjanette; Hager,W. David; Meng,Joyce; Pickett,Christopher; Schmitt,Heiko; Schulman,Peter; White,William B.; Campbell,Patrick; Tendler,Beatriz Raquel; Dahn,Michael; Karimeddini,Mozafareddin K.; Menzoian,James; Das,Dipak K.; Maulik,Nilanjana; Dodge,Kimberly; Yue,Lixia; Pappano,Achilles; 'barry@psychistry.uchc.edu'; Alessi,Sheila; Petry,Nancy M.; Palmisano,Joseph; Lieberman,Jay; Runowicz,Carolyn; Civetta,Joseph M.; Kozol,Robert; Dieckhaus,Kevin; Silverman,Adam; Angus,Steven; Carley,Nina; Appel,Elizabeth; Kosowicz,Lynn; Menoutis,John; Steinberg,Michael; Grasso,Joseph A.; Birk,John; 'Robbins,Jeffrey'; Shapiro,Linda; Han,David; Claffey,Kevin P.; Fong,Guo-Hua; Watras,James; Gross,Jeffrey; Lalande,Marc E.; Setlow,Peter; Tennen,Howard; Bona,Robert; Weller,Sandra K.; HEPWORTH,JERI; Allen,Scott; Coll,Patrick; Kuchel,George; Moss,Roberta; Papermaster,David S.; Kaplan,Andre; Adams,Nancy; Samson,Wilner; Foley,Raymond; Metersky,Mark L.; Sanders,M. Melinda; Whalen,James; Kanaan,Jennifer; Silverstein,Nicole; Deckers,Peter J.; Garibaldi,Karen; 'GaribaldiR'; Wilson,Lori; Chandawarkar,Rajiv; Heinen,Chris; Srivastava,Pramod K.; Li,Zihai; Hla,Timothy; Jaffe,Laurinda; Carson,John H.; Cowan,Ann; Wolfson,Leslie I.; McCullough,Louise; Albertsen,Peter C.; Koeppen,Bruce; Hewett,James; Jacob,Mary Casey; Arnold,Andrew; Winokur,Andrew; Huey,Leighton; Covault,Jonathan; Graveley,Brenton; Avelar,Erick; Vella,Anthony; Aronow,Michael S.; Rosenkrantz,Ted S.; Rosengren,Sally; Rosenstein,Myra; Rossomando,Edward F.; Rothe,Marti; Rothfield,Naomi; Rovalino,Janet; Rowe,David W.; Ruiz,Eric; Rungruanganunt,Patchnee; Ryan,Raymond W.; Safavi,Kamran; Saha,Animita; Salas,Moises; Salman,Momina; Sanders,Marilyn; Sanford,Collin; Sarkar,Shikha; Schaff,Jim; Schenkman,John B.; Scherzer,Larry; Schensul,Stephen; Schielke,Lorenz; Schincaglia,Gian Pietro; Schnatz,Peter; Schrader,Lara; Schramm,Craig; Secor,Eric; Segal,Ita; Segal,Joan V.; Senatus,Patrick; Setlow,Barbara; Shafer,David M.; Shapiro,David; Sheehan,Joseph T.; Shen,Jian-Bing; Sibley,Heather; Silverstein,Eric; Simmons,Adam; Sirop,Ariane; Slade,Karren L.; Slepchenko,Boris M.; Smilowitz,Henry; Smith,Jason; Solinsky,Susan; Somerville,Donald; Spangberg,Larz S.; Spiro,Jeffrey; Steadman,Ursula; Storey,Eileen; Stroop,Jennifer; Suchecki,Jeanine; Swede,Helen; Taghbalout,Aziz; Tangarorang,Glendo; Tannenbaum,Susan; Tanzer,Jason M.; Taylor,John; Terasaki,Mark; Thibodeau,Edward; Thrall,Roger S.; Tirnauer,Jennifer; Ton-That,Hung; Trestman,Robert; Trojian,Thomas; Turner,Garry W.; Uribe,Flavio; Vaziri,Haleh; Villagra,Victor; Vogiatzi,Theodora; Wadhwa,Sunil; Wagner,Julie; Waitzman,David M.; Wakai,Sara; Walsh,Joseph; Walsh,Stephen J.; Wan,Yuqing; Wang,Yu-Hsiung; Warren,Nicholas; Whitaker,Charles; Whitaker-Worth,Diane L.; Wolgemuth,Charles; Wu,Carol A.; Wu,Catherine; Wu,George Y.; Wu,Qian; Xu,Ren-He; Yamase,Harold; Yang,Clifford; Yaylagul,John; Ysaac,Sara; Zecevic,Nada; Zeff,Richard; Zhu,Qiang; Zou,Changping; Adler,Adam J.; Advani,Kavita; Agresta,Thomas P.; Aguila,Hector; Albreski,Douglas; Alerte,Anton; Algranati,Paula S.; Aliyu,Oluremi; Alkass,Ramzi; Almas,Khalid; Andemariam,Biree; Anderson,Joseph C.; Antic,Srdjan; Arciero,Robert; Arias,Albert; AveLallemant,Tanya; Lakshminarayanan,Santhanan; Ehlers,William; Eisenberg,Ellen; Eisenberg,Shlomo; Eisenfeld,Leonard; Rogina,Blanka; Klobutcher,Lawrence A.; DL-SODM Faculty; DL-SOM Paid Basic Science Faculty; DL-SOM Paid Clinical Faculty; DL-SOM UMG Faculty; Pachter,Joel; Vento,John A.; Agar,John R.; Grant-Kels,Jane M.; Brewer,Molly; Loew,Leslie M.; Mohler,William; Burleson,Joseph A.
Subject: RE: General Faculty Meeting
Jason, you are giving the perception of obstructionism here. Why do you persist in sending messages that imply that David Dorsky is, somehow, the sole arbiter. He is not and he would be the first to tell you so. The meetings were chosen at times to attempt to include as many faculty as possible. The hope was that clinicians would find a 7 AM meeting more desirable than a mid-day or late-day meeting. No meeting-time would be acceptable to all. It is important that this effort get off the ground quickly, lest folks like you accuse others of delaying. Speaking of PRIVATE emails, you have been sent quite a number explaining details to you. Your public diatribes, however, seem to ignore the information you have.
Please do something constructive. Pick up the phone and appeal to the administration to waive or provide the fee to record the meetings.
Finally, most of us are very busy. Most of us have families. We do what we can. Priorities.
Also, the best "court of public opinion" is the meetings themselves, not an email blast to everyone.
At 10:40 AM 11/25/2009, Ryan,Jason wrote:
David:
With all due respect, I emailed you privately first with my requests. You denied them. You also chose not to sign the AAUP Faculty emails that you wrote. Why not? Whether you intend it or not, you are giving the perception of elitism here. A small group of the faculty set up the meetings next week at times and locations that exclude many others. I tried to tell you this privately to encourage you to alter your plans. When you declined, I had no choice but to hash this out in the court of public opinion. I will leave it to the faculty to decide whether you are being inclusive or not. I think the latter. As you said, this union belongs to all of us. I am a busy clinician. I have an eight month old son at home who misses me when I come in at 7am or stay after work for meetings. Many others have these same constraints. You should be more considerate of this when you make your plans.
You have a 29-member group working with you. That is far more help that I have working “rouge.” If you cannot even cajole this group to video tape a conference, how will you muster support from the entire faculty to ratify a constitution?
Respectfully,
Jason Ryan
Jason Ryan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030
jaryan@uchc.edu
From: Dorsky,David I.
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:27 AM
To: Ryan,Jason
Cc: hewitt@nso1.uchc.edu; Kreutzer,Donald L.
Subject: your e-mail
Hi Jason,
Your recent global email contains some incorrect assertions.
First, I do not "head the faculty association." This has been made abundantly clear to you and I object to your insistence on this falsehood.
Second, I have not signed off on denial of your request. We all are aware that broad participation is needed.
As Sandy Hewitt explained to you, we do not have an FRS account or the means to arrange the things that you want. It is not possible to snap your fingers and have things materialize.
Third, the tone of your message is not appreciated. I do not mean to try and stifle your free speech in any way, but I object to your use of the global email system to broadcast complaints that are founded on misconceptions.
Rather than complain, you can get involved right away and help out arranging what you are proposing. Call around and see what you can find out. That is what any of us would have to do. Someone (not me) had to waste his entire day yesterday calling around to arrange the time and places for the general meetings. He has a much busier professional life than you do, I assure you.
We should all accept the assumption that we are working in good faith and dealing fairly.
Please act more responsibly. This is a difficult time for all of us and we don't need the distraction.
Best regards,
David
From: Bernstein,Leslie
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:31 AM
To: Ryan,Jason; Hewett,Sandra; Rothfield,Lawrence; 'Ed Marth'; Kreutzer,Donald L.; 'Brenton Graveley'; Raisz,Lawrence; Cone,Robert; Ryan,Jason; Singh,Kanwar; 'mohler.william.uchcfacultydiscourse@blogger.com'; 'barbarak@uconnaaup.org'; Rosenberg,Daniel; Hansen,Marc F.; Lefrancois,Leo; Kranzler,Henry; DL-All-PI's; Azrin,Michael A.; Ferris-Senatus,Anjanette; Hager,W. David; Meng,Joyce; Pickett,Christopher; Schmitt,Heiko; Schulman,Peter; White,William B.; Campbell,Patrick; Tendler,Beatriz Raquel; Dahn,Michael; Karimeddini,Mozafareddin K.; Menzoian,James; Das,Dipak K.; Maulik,Nilanjana; Dodge,Kimberly; Yue,Lixia; Pappano,Achilles; 'barry@psychistry.uchc.edu'; Alessi,Sheila; Petry,Nancy M.; Palmisano,Joseph; Lieberman,Jay; Runowicz,Carolyn; Civetta,Joseph M.; Kozol,Robert; Dieckhaus,Kevin; Silverman,Adam; Angus,Steven; Carley,Nina; Appel,Elizabeth; Kosowicz,Lynn; Menoutis,John; Steinberg,Michael; Grasso,Joseph A.; Birk,John; 'Robbins,Jeffrey'; Shapiro,Linda; Han,David; Claffey,Kevin P.; Fong,Guo-Hua; Watras,James; Gross,Jeffrey; Lalande,Marc E.; Setlow,Peter; Tennen,Howard; Bona,Robert; Weller,Sandra K.; HEPWORTH,JERI; Allen,Scott; Coll,Patrick; Kuchel,George; Moss,Roberta; Papermaster,David S.; Kaplan,Andre; Adams,Nancy; Samson,Wilner; Foley,Raymond; Metersky,Mark L.; Sanders,M. Melinda; Whalen,James; Kanaan,Jennifer; Silverstein,Nicole; Deckers,Peter J.; Garibaldi,Karen; 'GaribaldiR'; Wilson,Lori; Chandawarkar,Rajiv; Heinen,Chris; Srivastava,Pramod K.; Li,Zihai; Hla,Timothy; Jaffe,Laurinda; Carson,John H.; Cowan,Ann; Wolfson,Leslie I.; McCullough,Louise; Albertsen,Peter C.; Koeppen,Bruce; Hewett,James; Jacob,Mary Casey; Arnold,Andrew; Winokur,Andrew; Huey,Leighton; Covault,Jonathan; Graveley,Brenton; Avelar,Erick; Vella,Anthony; Aronow,Michael S.; Rosenkrantz,Ted S.; Rosengren,Sally; Rosenstein,Myra; Rossomando,Edward F.; Rothe,Marti; Rothfield,Naomi; Rovalino,Janet; Rowe,David W.; Ruiz,Eric; Rungruanganunt,Patchnee; Ryan,Raymond W.; Safavi,Kamran; Saha,Animita; Salas,Moises; Salman,Momina; Sanders,Marilyn; Sanford,Collin; Sarkar,Shikha; Schaff,Jim; Schenkman,John B.; Scherzer,Larry; Schensul,Stephen; Schielke,Lorenz; Schincaglia,Gian Pietro; Schnatz,Peter; Schrader,Lara; Schramm,Craig; Secor,Eric; Segal,Ita; Segal,Joan V.; Senatus,Patrick; Setlow,Barbara; Shafer,David M.; Shapiro,David; Sheehan,Joseph T.; Shen,Jian-Bing; Sibley,Heather; Silverstein,Eric; Simmons,Adam; Sirop,Ariane; Slade,Karren L.; Slepchenko,Boris M.; Smilowitz,Henry; Smith,Jason; Solinsky,Susan; Somerville,Donald; Spangberg,Larz S.; Spiro,Jeffrey; Steadman,Ursula; Storey,Eileen; Stroop,Jennifer; Suchecki,Jeanine; Swede,Helen; Taghbalout,Aziz; Tangarorang,Glendo; Tannenbaum,Susan; Tanzer,Jason M.; Taylor,John; Terasaki,Mark; Thibodeau,Edward; Thrall,Roger S.; Tirnauer,Jennifer; Ton-That,Hung; Trestman,Robert; Trojian,Thomas; Turner,Garry W.; Uribe,Flavio; Vaziri,Haleh; Villagra,Victor; Vogiatzi,Theodora; Wadhwa,Sunil; Wagner,Julie; Waitzman,David M.; Wakai,Sara; Walsh,Joseph; Walsh,Stephen J.; Wan,Yuqing; Wang,Yu-Hsiung; Warren,Nicholas; Whitaker,Charles; Whitaker-Worth,Diane L.; Wolgemuth,Charles; Wu,Carol A.; Wu,Catherine; Wu,George Y.; Wu,Qian; Xu,Ren-He; Yamase,Harold; Yang,Clifford; Yaylagul,John; Ysaac,Sara; Zecevic,Nada; Zeff,Richard; Zhu,Qiang; Zou,Changping; Adler,Adam J.; Advani,Kavita; Agresta,Thomas P.; Aguila,Hector; Albreski,Douglas; Alerte,Anton; Algranati,Paula S.; Aliyu,Oluremi; Alkass,Ramzi; Almas,Khalid; Andemariam,Biree; Anderson,Joseph C.; Antic,Srdjan; Arciero,Robert; Arias,Albert; AveLallemant,Tanya; Lakshminarayanan,Santhanan; Ehlers,William; Eisenberg,Ellen; Eisenberg,Shlomo; Eisenfeld,Leonard; Rogina,Blanka; Klobutcher,Lawrence A.; DL-SODM Faculty; DL-SOM Paid Basic Science Faculty; DL-SOM Paid Clinical Faculty; DL-SOM UMG Faculty; Pachter,Joel; Vento,John A.; Agar,John R.; Grant-Kels,Jane M.; Brewer,Molly; Loew,Leslie M.; Mohler,William; Burleson,Joseph A.
Subject: Re: General Faculty Meeting
First, I wish to correct a number of unjustified assumptions and falsehoods in Jason Ryan's message. David Dorsky DOES NOT HEAD THE AAUP FACULTY ASSOCIATION. No single individual heads or speaks for the group that organized the campaign or the current association.
The thirty-member group, of which I am a member, DID sign their names to the publicly circulated letter that Jason Ryan references. To say that members of that group "elected not to sign their names to the association emails" is misleading and connotes that we wished not to be identified. The fact that we signed the letter is evidence to the contrary. We did not see the need to attach 30 names to each email.
The UCHC Faculty Association was not "backed by the National AAUP," at least not financially. They did provide information and advice. They neither ran nor funded the campaign. There have not been nor will there be "outsiders" involved other than in an advisory capacity. The union organization consists of the faculty. All committees, including the negotiating team will consist of faculty.
Again, the National AAUP is NOT providing funding. Funds available to is will have to be collected as dues from the membership. As for the dues, it is the case that the "union" will set them insofar as WE ALL are the union. The amount to be collected will be decided by FACULTY. I certainly do agree that everyone must participate.
As for the specific suggestions made, I disagree that we should hold "internet meetings" or discuss issues by blogging "instead of meeting in person." Certainly, internet resources, such as those set up on the UCHC AAUP web site can and will serve as an important adjunct to meeting in person. Discussing important issues face-to-face is essential. As for having "free time" to attend meetings, well, it's a matter of priorities. I certainly don't have "extra" time available but I have, do, and will MAKE time to participate. I suggest that we all find a way to do that. Keep in mind that the meetings that have been scheduled for next week are just the FIRST of many to come.
As to video recording of the meetings, perhaps that can be arranged but there are currently NO FUNDS available to pay for such a service. In fact, we have available exactly the amount that the National AAUP poured into the campaign, namely $0.00. Perhaps the administration will cover the fee for video communications to record the meetings. Perhaps Jason Ryan would be willing to make that request.
As a final note, we now have a union. It will take widespread and diverse participation by the faculty in order for it to be successful. There is currently NO GROUP that has the authority to make decisions on behalf of the union. The 30 of us (including David Dorsky) who signed the letter Jason Ryan referenced have no special standing. The group that will have authority to negotiate on behalf of the faculty (with decisions ratified by the faculty) must be elected. All of this will be discussed at the meeting and the "next steps" have already been communicated to all and are available for you to read on the UCHC AAUP web site.
There is no grand conspiracy here as the tenor of Jason Ryan's memo suggests. Taking uninformed pot-shots is neither desirable nor constructive. Please take the time to get the FACTS. Please participate. The AAUP union is US folks!
Les Bernstein
At 09:57 AM 11/25/2009, Ryan,Jason wrote:
Dear Colleagues:
I am writing to solicit your support in making two important changes to the upcoming union meetings:
- The union organizational meetings next week should be video recorded and posted online. We have the technology to do this at UCONN. It is done every week for medical grand rounds ( http://mediasite.uchc.edu/Mediasite41/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=a4c52db4-bb58-46e4-8d78-796c73c76f89 ). Many faculty members will be unable to attend next week. We have faculty spread out from Simsbury to Farming, in clinics, labs, and operating rooms. To include only those who can make the meetings in person will exclude far too many of us from such a vital task. At a minimum, the meetings should be transcribed, and conducted with PowerPoint slides that can be posted online.
- Man of the future meetings should be conducted via the internet. Instead of a meeting in person, we can set up a blog. Groups (such as the critical constitutional writing group) can post thoughts and replies as they build consensus. Voting can be done via email. This will allow everyone to be involved, not just those with free time to attend meetings.
I have made both of these requests to David Dorsky, who heads the AAUP Faculty Association. This is the 29-member group, backed by the national AAUP (http://www.aaup.org/aaup), that has been sending us emails from @info.aaup.org. The other members are listed below. They have elected not to sign their names to the association emails but I feel we must know who they are since they are organizing the union for now. Speaking for the group, Dr. Dorsky tells me the above requests cannot be honored due to lack of resources. Essentially, he says they lack the time to arrange these things. I find this hard to believe given all the effort that went into the unionization vote. Plus, the national AAUP has large resources to devote to this effort.
As we saw with the polling last week, every vote counts. Participation must be maximized or a small group will end up representing all of us. Remember that the union will set dues which are mandatory. These may result in a decrease in our salaries of up to several thousands of dollars per year. If the union is effective, there will be a return on this investment. But we all need to participate.
Please reply to this email or directly to the AAUP Faculty Association members if you would like to see the above changes implemented.
Respectfully,
Jason Ryan
AAUP Faculty Association Members
David Dorsky, MD (apparent head and organizer; he and Sandra Hewett replied to my requests for information)
Sandra J. Hewett, PhD
Leslie R. Bernstein PhD
Santhanaman Lakshminarayanan, M.D.
Michael Abeles, M.D.
Duck O. Kim, D.Sc.
Bruce J. Mayer, Ph.D.
Shigeyuki Kuwada, Ph.D.
S.J. Potashner
Marion E. Frank, Ph.D.
Douglas L. Oliver, Ph.D.
John H. Carson, PhD
Don Kreutzer, Ph.D.
Ulrike Klueh, Ph.D.
Richard R. Lindquist, MD
Bruce A. White, PhD
Joel S. Pachter
Manika Das, Ph.D.
Audrey R. Chapman, PhD
Gloria Gronowicz, Ph.D.
Kent Morest, M.D.
Stephen L. Schensul, Ph.D.
James Hewett, PhD
Lisa H. Conti, Ph.D.
Elisa Barbarese, Ph.D.
Joseph A. Burleson II, Ph.D.
David M. Waitzman, MD, PhD
David Gregorio, Ph.D
Jane A. Ungamack, Dr.PH.
Nilanjana Maulik, Ph.D.
Dipak Das, PhD
From: Faculty Meeting [ mailto:info@uchcaaup.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:42 PM
To: Ryan,Jason
Subject: General Faculty Meeting
Dear Doctor Jason W. Ryan,
Now that the election is complete and the results are in, the process of organizing our faculty for the purposes of collective representation needs to be initiated. To begin this process, we are calling for a series of meetings to exchange information, solicit questions and comments and most importantly encourage the active participation of faculty in the steps leading to collective representation and bargaining.
The first meetings will take place on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 5:00 pm in the Massey Auditorium and Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00 am in the Keller Auditorium. At these meetings we will discuss the development of a constitution and the organization of medical clinical, dental clinical, research and education working groups to identify the concerns and needs of faculty and ensure that the constitution and the collective bargaining process reflects those concerns and needs.
This is now our organization and our opportunity to express ourselves for both our own issues and those of the institution. We need your involvement, no matter how you voted, to make this process work.
Participate in an agenda building working group. Sign up for a working group at the meeting or at Faculty Association WebSite
UCHC AAUP Faculty Association
Les Bernstein
MC-3401
Department of Neuroscience
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030
Voice: (860) 679-4622
FAX: (860) 679-8766
email: Les@neuron.uchc.edu
Les Bernstein
MC-3401
Department of Neuroscience
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030
Voice: (860) 679-4622
FAX: (860) 679-8766
email: Les@neuron.uchc.edu
MC-3401
Department of Neuroscience
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030
Voice: (860) 679-4622
FAX: (860) 679-8766
email: Les@neuron.uchc.edu
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