Following is the resolution sent this week by the Academic Staff Representatives Council (ASRC):
Dear Director Donnelly and members of the Joint Committee on Employment Relations,
Attached is a resolution expressing the grave concern of the UW System Academic Staff Representatives Council over plans that would exclude "Category A" academic staff from an additional compensation package being considered for this biennium. Last week, this resolution was approved unanimously by the council, whose members represent academic staff governance groups from across the state. For your convenience, the text of the resolution also appears below.
Yours truly,
Dave Carlson
UW-Rock County
Chair, UW System Academic Staff Representatives Council
cc: Governor Jim Doyle
UW System President Kevin Reilly
David Giroux, UW System Communications and External Relations
Whereas the Wisconsin Office of State Employment Relations has communicated to University of Wisconsin System officials and others tentative plans to offer additional compensation beyond the pay plan for the 2007-2009 biennium to faculty and academic staff, but only Category B instructional and research academic staff, and
Whereas all academic staff in the University of Wisconsin System provide essential support for the university’s educational and research missions, and
Whereas the most recent data show that salaries across all categories of academic staff in the UW System lag behind salaries for their peers at other institutions of higher education by a much wider margin than that by which UW System faculty salaries lag behind their peers’ salaries, and
Whereas members of the UW System Academic Staff Representatives Council represent all categories of academic staff,
Be it therefore resolved that
The UW System Academic Staff Representatives Council is opposed to any plan that would exclude Category A academic staff from additional compensation offered in this biennium to other unclassified employees of the UW System.
