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Our Rights


The best way to ensure the protection of your rights as a lecturer, librarian, archivist, or curator is to know your contract.

Do you have a work concern or want to report a potential contract violation?

If you have a concern about your working conditions and/or believe you are facing a potential contract violation, follow the link above.

This handout from AFT-Michigan summarizes your right to union representation during investigatory meetings with managment, aka Weingarten Rights.

This document is the Librarians, Archivists, & Curators’ (LACs) collective bargaining agreement, or contract, with university administration from 2022-2025. This contract went into effect in July 2022. This is the first contract for the GLAM Bargaining unit. You can read MoUs still in effect below.

This MoU from 09/08/2022 outlines the modified promotion timeline for LACs in 2022-2023.

This MoU from 10/07/21 outlines protections and penalties for LACs vis-a-vis the University COVID Vaccine Mandate.

This MoU from 03/02/22 outlines protections and penalties for Lecturers vis-a-vis the University COVID Vaccine Booster Mandate.

This document is the Lecturers’ collective bargaining agreement, or contract, with university administration from 2021-2024. This contract went into effect in September 2021. You can read the previous 2018-2021 contract as well as Impact MoUs still in effect below.

This MoU from 09/16/21 outlines the use of remote modality instead of employee absence, change in modality as an accommodation, and use of student evaluations for the purpose of retention or promotion during emergencies.

This MoU from 09/18/21 outlines protections and penalties for Lecturers vis-a-vis the University COVID Vaccine Mandate.

This MoU from 01/27/22 outlines protections and penalties for Lecturers vis-a-vis the University COVID Vaccine Booster Mandate.

This document explains in detail the improvements and changes made between the 2018-2021 and 2021-2024 Lecturer contracts. You can read the full text of the 2018-2021 contract below.

This document is the Lecturers’ collective bargaining agreement, or contract, with university administration from 2018-2021. The articles listed here took effect in July 2018 upon ratification of our contract.