Over the years, UFF-FAU has achieved numerous victories for individual faculty members and for the faculty as a whole. Many victories occur informally — for instance, when a faculty member brings the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement) to their chair to get an unjust assignment of responsibility remedied, or when a faculty member uses the leave of absence criteria outlined in the CBA to successfully apply for a sabbatical. Other victories are more dramatic — for instance, when a faculty member wins a grievance against a denial of tenure, when a faculty member successfully grieves against an inappropriate disciplinary procedure, or when a faculty member successfully challenges administration actions that violate his or her intellectual property rights, such as patent rights.