Contract

After intense bargaining over the summer, our negotiating team is pleased to announce overwhelming ratification vote for a three-year collective bargaining agreement. The new contract raises per credit and hourly rates by 9.1% over the next three years, starting fall 2021. You can read the agreement here.

We are the largest group of employees at the University of Hartford. Full-time faculty number around 350. Part-time members teach sections that generate approximately 35% of all credits; the university could not survive without us. so its budget should not be balanced on our backs. This contract recognizes the commitment that part-time members have to the University and its students and our place in helping the University prosper and grow.

University salaries, especially for part-timers, have stagnated over the past decade. This was the reason UHart part timers organized in to a union. The new contract also establishes a professional development fund and a course cancellation stipend.

The 4Cs University of Hartford Bargaining Team:

• Alan Francis, UHart Chapter Chair
• Ira Rubenzahl, 4Cs Vice President for the Private Division
• MJ Moriarty, UIS
• Dawn Ennis, Communications & UIS
• Seth Freeman, 4Cs President