Your Union at Work
Our union gives the faculty a meaningful, effective voice in dialogue with the administration. Maintaining this open conduit of communication between the faculty and the administration is incredibly important.
We need our union to advocate for better wages and benefits (particularly given the rate of inflation), and we need our union to help us achieve equitable and sustainable working conditions.
Use the Join Your Union link to join using e-dues or pay by check.
What we have achieved:
Increased Pay Rates
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Increased all starting salaries to keep PHSC competitive in hiring
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Increased the stipends for program directors and department chairs
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Increased the stipend for SMEs
Negotiated 4 consecutive substantial raises
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2025: 8% across-the-board permanent raises
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2024: 3% across-the-board permanent raises
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2023: 5% across-the-board permanent raises, 2% non-recurring payment
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2022: Negotiated adjustments to salaries to ensure fair compensation based on years of service and degree attainment, average 5.6% raise.
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2021: 5.5% across-the-board permanent raises and a 5% non-recurring payment
Average 30% increase over 5 years!
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Increased Faculy Involvement
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Eliminated multipliers for clinicals and labs (equal pay for equal work)
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Release time for department chairs
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Stronger academic freedom language in CBA
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Established public comment at board meetings
"Our labor unions...Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor"
John F. Kennedy,1960
