FSU President Nowaczyk Issues Statement Regarding Union Proposal Rejection
To read our coverage of AFSCME union discussions with Frostburg State University, go here.
As discussions and negotiations reached their final breaking point, President Ronald H. Nowaczyk sent this by email to the Frostburg State University community on Friday, October 16 at 3:52 p.m.:
“As you are aware, FSU started its budget process with over a $10M deficit and we continue to face a budgetary shortfall of $1.43M due to a reduction in state funding, lowered enrollment, COVID-19 expenses, and loss of auxiliary revenue. FSU did not receive the additional funding the Historically Black Universities and Colleges in the University System of Maryland (USM) received and, as such, FSU finds itself in a more precarious financial situation than some of its USM peers.
While FSU has exhausted its options at reducing operating expenses, the remaining $1.43M shortfall must be closed by cutting FSU’s payroll in order for FSU to obtain a balanced budget as required by Article III, section 52 of the Maryland Constitution. FSU has reached out to AFSCME Local 239 and have been meeting with them since September 15, 2020. FSU presented a salary reduction plan in order to achieve its balanced budget. The plan included a graduated scale with those at the top bracket receiving a 10% salary reduction and those at the bottom bracket receiving a 1.15% reduction. AFSCME rejected the initial offer and responded with a counteroffer.
On October 15, 2020, FSU presented their fourth proposal to AFSCME where no salary reductions would be applied to those making $40,000 or less and a fair percentage reduction would be distributed to the remaining brackets. The percentage of the reduction would be distributed to those brackets making $40,001 or more with an additional three (3) administrative holiday days to be used on December 18, 2020, December 21, 2020, and December 22, 2020.
FSU understands that AFSCME’s mission is to protect its member employees and respects its advocacy on behalf of those members; however, FSU has the obligation to seek to do what is best for ALL of its employees, union and non-union. What AFSCME has proposed to date, is a shift of the burden from its members to other FSU employees. FSU cannot agree to such an unequitable outcome on behalf of its non-AFSCME affiliated employees. FSU is also concerned that the longer bargaining continues with AFSCME, the more discomfort all its employees will face with the compression of the number of paychecks over which the salary deductions will be applied.
For these reasons, after negotiating in good faith, FSU has officially informed AFSCME today, October 16, 2020, that under Sections 26 and 27 of the MOUs, layoffs will be implemented, and a 90-day notice will be given in advance to affected employees in the bargaining unit.”
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When an administration consists of past prime, non local, well paid and well invested individuals where their only goal is to retire in the next 2-5 years (and have no heart nor soul connection to the employees), what else can be expected. FSU is a disgrace to a community that once fully supported it. The inner city Baltimore students, the related crime and culture of those students, the non connected administration ( to Frostburg), and the liberal mentality will prove the schools eventual fate.
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