ut-AAUP Bulletin

"by and for the bargaining units but open to all"

Issue #46

Faculty Letter to Dabney 

Donald K. Wedding, UT-AAUP Executive Board

Faculty are continuing to report problems with the Summer payroll. One faculty has reported being paid in full for a lecture course and only in part for a DL course. Other faculty have reported being paid in part for both lecture and DL courses. Several have reported incorrect 403b and other deductions.

A letter to CFO and VP David Dabney from Professor Mary Ellen Edwards is presented below with her permission.  

 Dear VP Dabney,

It is unacceptable that you  as the person in authority have changed the process of summer pay for faculty with absolutely no notice to anyone.  Because of this  totally unexpected change I had to scramble to borrow money to pay for my father's funeral expenses.

Also please be advised that you deducted a full amount from my pay for my Ohio Deferred Compensation 403b plan contributions in this May 20th summer pay period.  I had set up my contributions to be divided based on my 9 month faculty salary only and now I will go over the federal limit for these contributions unless this situation is corrected.    There have been no problems with this process for the past 13 years I have worked summers.  Please provide me with  information on the process you have put in place to correct errors caused by your newly changed procedures so I can get this corrected.

Mary Ellen Edwards 

Petition Signing  

 This coming Saturday...

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Health Science Campus

10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

On public property - sidewalk - near Glendale entrance to Health Science Campus

across the street from Tim Hortons   

APOLOGY: Sorry we used the wrong title of the HSC in our last email.  It was intentional, as we were thinking of the 1,500+ recipients on our list serve who are not affiliated with UT who may still use outdated terms to refer to the campus.  We stand corrected by many of you and will not do it again. 

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Petition Signing

Saturday, May 28th 

Way Public Library

101 East Indiana Avenue

Perrysburg, OH 43551

(419) 874-3135

10 am - 12 noon

Weather Permitting, one of our hard-working volunteers, Tom Galloway, will be outside Way Public Library on Saturday, May 28th, from 10-12.  He has Wood, Lucas, Sandusky and Ottawa counties, as well as some of the counties from up around the Cleveland area.