UFF-FAU

Know Your Rights for Immigrants: University Faculty and Staff
2025-09-02 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
ACLU Florida is hosting a training session geared toward faculty and staff. If you want to attend, register here

August Executive Committee Meeting
2025-08-25 11:00 - 12:15

Welcome Back Social
2025-08-21 16:00 - 18:00 | The Irishmen
We welcome all our members and new hires to join us, Thursday, August 2, for our welcome back social happy hour.

South Florida Workers Power Forum
2025-05-31 13:00 - 17:00 | The South Florida AFL-CIO Hall, 4349 NW 36th St #102, Miami Springs, 33166, United States
The event has been organized by a coalition of South Florida labor and community organizations, including your dear old union, United Faculty of Florida, featuring speakers from the FAU and FIU chapters. It will feature four panels:
1) Organizing the unorganized
2) Building union power
3) Organizing against state repression
4) Organizing for migrant justice.
It will draw together members from the Communications Workers of America, UNITE HERE, Starbucks Workers United, Association of Flight Attendants, National Association of Letter Carriers, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, American Federation of Government Employees, and more. The goal of the event is not simply to discuss these critical issues, but also to build coalitions among unions across sectors to strengthen our power and building critical momentum in defense of all workers’ rights.
Sign up here.

Annual End of Year Lake Ida Park Event
2025-05-03 13:00 - 16:00 | 1455 Lake Ida Road, Delray Beach, Florida
Union Members, Please join us again this year for our annual end of the academic year. Have fun, and great conversations, eat, and bring your luck for our raffle of fun goodies. This is a family-friendly event, bring the children and your four-legged furry babies.

Final Spring EC Meeting
2025-04-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom
Join us for our final EC meeting.

Blitz Week: March 30-Apri 4 from 10 AM to 6 PM
2025-03-31 10:00 - 2025-04-05 15:00
As a member-run, worker-to-worker organized union, your experience as a member of UFF-FAU is one of our strongest points of argument for new faculty and nonmembers to join our movement. We need 117 people to join to reach 60%. The only way we get this done is the way we get anything done: we do it together.
Our core recruiters have continuously spoken with new faculty and nonmembers for many months, discussing the union, their need to join, and the upcoming blitz. Many of these people are primed to join. Meeting you and hearing why you are a member while you discuss their concerns and interests will likely make the difference in seeing their way to joining.
We have set up two-hour shifts throughout the week – from Monday, March 31st, and ending on Friday, April 4th, with our last Happy Hour of the semester at The Irishmen from 4-6 pm. We will start our recruitment days at 10 am and end at 6 pm. Reach out to Jake Henson or Chris Robe’ to sign up for shifts.
You will go out in pairs, accompanied by more experienced recruiters. We will assign you locations where you are most comfortable recruiting. Your involvement in speaking to your colleagues about the union shows non-members that faculty are the union and that many of us are willing to engage to the point of outreaching to others about the importance of our union and joining.
It’s time to directly get involved.

CBA Ratification Election Meeting
2025-03-28 11:00 - 13:00
Notice of CBA 2025-2028 Election

2nd Know Your Rights Townhall
2025-03-25 17:00 - 18:00
The event will include a brief presentation by our Contract Enforcement Committee about your rights as a union member. UFF’s Labor Relations Service Unit Director, Cami Acceus, will also be present to answer any questions you may have about your rights. This will provide a much-needed opportunity for faculty to learn about your rights as a union member and answer any of your questions. We hope that UFF-FAU members and non-members will join us.

March Executive Committee Meeting Canceled
2025-03-24 11:00 - 12:00
11 AM held virtually.

Putt-Putt Golf Family Event
2025-03-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Putt’n Around, Delray Beach, 350 NE 5th Ave, Delray Beach, 33483, United States

Solidarity Cinema Series: Union (2024)
2025-03-20 08:00 - 19:00 | CU 109 (formlery Living Room Theater), 777 Glades Road, Culture and Society Building, Boca Raton, FL
Building towards our recruiting blitz week, March 31-April 4, UFF-FAU is sponsoring the screening of the documentary, Union, during the Solidarity Cinema Series. If you haven’t signed up for the blitz week yet, please do so by emailing our membership and organizing co-chair at jake.henson4@gmail.com.
Nominated for an Academy Award for feature length documentary, Union follows the formation of the first Amazon union, at a fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. For fear of alienating Amazon, no commercial distributors have picked up the film to provide theatrical or online releases. But Solidarity Cinema Series will be offering a special screening of the film on March 20, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Brett Story and former Amazon employee and organizer Zack Boff. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Christopher Robé.
March 20, 7 PM, CU 109 (Living Room Theaters)
Solidarity Cinema Series
Partnership between United Faculty of Florida- FAU, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, and the Center for Peace, Justice and Human Rights

Know Your Rights Town Hall
2025-03-11 10:30 - 11:30 | Zoom

February Executive Committee Meeting
2025-02-17 11:00 - 2025-02-24 12:00 | Zoom
Every member is welcome to join us.

Bargaining
2025-02-14 13:00 - 16:00 | Zoom

Bargaining Session
2025-01-31 13:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Join us for our 6th bargaining session.

Solidarity Cinema Series: Do The Right Thing
2025-01-30 19:00 - 22:00
Thirty-five years ago, Spike Lee released Do The Right Thing (1989), an evocative film that investigates many of the racial tensions and concerns about policing that still plague us today. After the screening, we will hear from actress Ginny Yang, who was in the film, about her experiences on the set and acting overall. Dr. Regis M. Fox will also offer insights.
January 30, 7 PM, CU 109 (Living Room Theaters)
Solidarity Cinema Series
Partnership between School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Center for Peace, Justice and Human Rights, and UFF-FAU

Executive Committee Meeting
2025-01-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
All members are welcome to join.

Bargaining Session
2025-01-17 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Zoom

UFF-FAU Happy Hour
2025-01-10 16:00 - 18:00 | The Irishman
Welcome back to campus and the fight for 60% density. Please join us for the first happy hour of Spring 2025 at The Irishman this Friday! Try to bring a non-member colleague. Let’s enjoy each other’s company, hear union updates, and plan for the long future of UFF solidarity at FAU!
UFF-FAU Happy Hour
Friday, January 10th, 2025, from 4 pm-6 pm
The Irishman
1745 NW 2nd Ave
Boca Raton, FL 33432
As always, tapas and drinks will be provided. We have reserved a space indoors, but the location has outdoor space as well.
We will see you there!
Future Save the Dates:

January 30th: Solidarity Cinema Series, Do The Right Thing, from 7:00-10:00 p.m. in Culture and Society room 109. Discussion with Actor Ginny Yang following the film.

In Solidarity,
UFF-FAU Executive Committee

Bargaining Session #4
2024-12-16 14:00 - 17:00 | Zoom

Happy Hour
2024-12-06 16:00 - 18:00 | The Irishman
Happy Hour is an excellent opportunity to catch up with union leadership and hear about the work being done to resist infringements on our academic freedom and build the working, teaching, and living conditions we all want for our community. It will be an excellent opportunity to enjoy the company of our colleagues and see what has happened over the summer. It will be a wonderful reunion for many. If you’re looking for an opportunity to come out and be social, please join us!

Bargaining
2024-12-06 13:00 - 16:00
December 6th bargaining via Zoom.

UFF-FAU Executive Committee Meeting
2024-11-25 11:00 - 12:30, 2024-10-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom

Bargaining Session #2
2024-11-15 11:00 - 15:00 | Zoom

Solidarity Cinema Series: The Story of Plastic
2024-11-07 19:00 - 22:00 | CU 107 (formerly the Living Room Theaters), 777 Glades Road, Culture and Society Building, Boca Raton, FL
The Story of Plastic (2019) offers a seething expose uncovering the ugly truth behind the current global plastic pollution crisis and the global movement rising up in response. Join us in a discussion moderated by Dr. Karen Leader, Associate Professor of Art History, with Dr. Stacey Balkan, Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities, Department of English, who will offer thoughts on “the nonhuman costs of extractive economies across our petrochemical planet.” Also participating is Autumn Bryan, graduate student at FAU’s Center for Environmental Studies, who writes for The Invading Sea, FAU’s news source for environmental issues.

Happy Hour
2024-11-01 16:00 - 18:00 | The Irishman

Bowling
2024-10-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Bowlero, Boca Raton, 21046 Commercial Trail, Boca Raton, FL, 33486, United States
