Back in April, Tallahassee Community College Provost Felecia Moore-Davis proposed a heavier workload for the school’s teachers.
T.C.C. Faculty Senate President Dr. Frank Baglione now says the stage could be set for those teachers to approve a union bargaining unit.
“They did not consult with us before the fact and now they expect we are going to have faith that this after-the-fact task force is going to do anything other than supply the data they need to go forward with the proposal that the provost originally offered.”
On Thursday of this week (6/2) T.C.C. President Dr. Jim Murdaugh sent an e-mail to all faculty and staff urging them not to unionize, saying that would hurt the “culture of the campus”. He also promised a task force would examine the workload issue and report to the school’s board of trustees. Baglione said if attorneys for the school and United Faculty of Florida can move quickly, a faculty vote to accept the union as their collective bargaining agent could come as early as the start of the fall semester.