On March 26, 2026, ULFA members received notification that the Board and ULFA negotiating teams have completed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for a new Academic Staff Collective Agreement (ASCA). This MOA follows the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth bargaining sessions held on March 2 and 3, 2026 as two full days of formal mediation. The ULFA negotiating team, Bargaining Resource Committee, and ULFA Executive all recommend ratification of the MOA to the ULFA membership.
On March 30, 2026, ULFA held a special ratification meeting, during which the membership approved a motion to conduct an electronic ratification vote. The vote is open to active ULFA members from the afternoon of March 30, 2026, to Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 1 pm.
In addition to summarizing the MOA at the ratification meeting, the ULFA negotiating team provided documentation to the membership for further review of the tentative agreement. This documentation includes the provision of the executed MOA, a concise summary document (6 pages), and a more detailed summary document (17 pages).
The MOA contains items agreed upon during mediation and references the items agreed upon prior to mediation via hyperlinks. The concise summary reviews changes in theMOA in the context of the ULFA bargaining mandate, highlighting how each mandate item was addressed, including those successfully achieved and those not. The detailed summary reviews all changes to items opened during this round of bargaining and references the full versions of articles and schedules via hyperlinks. Thus, ULFA members have access to both high-level and detailed information regarding the tentative agreement.
The MOA is the result of countless hours of work across multiple ULFA committees and is truly a team effort. There are several long-standing issues of equity and respect that have been addressed: a new Teaching Professoriate, the elimination of double reductions in increments for members on part-time or reduced-load status, conversion language for term appointments to continuing positions, and a much-improved benefits plan that is more transparent and responsive to members’ needs. A summary of the progress of items opened in this round of bargaining is available here. Results of the ratification vote will be announced to the membership following the close of the electronic ballot.
