The United Faculty of Florida-Graduate Assistants United chapter at Florida A&M University has reached an agreement with the FAMU Board of Trustees on a new contract. This is the first contract negotiated locally with FAMU. Since 1998, FAMU graduate employees had negotiated with the Florida Board of Regents. The last Board of Regents/UFF-GAU contract expired in 2003. On January 8, 2008 the GAU bargaining team came to an agreement with university representatives for a three-year collective bargaining agreement. Salary will be re-opened every year, as well as any two issues each side wants to negotiate.
All FAMU Graduate, Research and Teaching Assistants, vote to approve our new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Voting on the ratification of the UFF-FAMU-GAU collective bargaining agreement will be as follows
Over 400 graduate employees of the university, which include graduate assistants, research assistants, and teaching assistants are affected by the contract. GAU negotiators were able to obtain