United Faculty of Florida members will see a 2.5-percent salary increase April 1.
UF’s Board of Trustees ratified the salary increase Friday. The increase applies to work done since Jan. 1. Pay increases from January to March will be reflected in the faculty’s April paychecks, said Ryan Fuller, the senior university counsel for human resources, who advises the board on legal matters regarding employment.
The board voted on the raise Jan. 28, but UFF had to discuss and agree to the board’s decision before it could ratify the raise.
“State law requires that the union and the university enter into an agreement to amend the collective bargaining agreement consistent with that decision,” Fuller said.
UFF ratified the raise in a meeting Thursday, Fuller said.
At the Jan. 28 Board of Trustees meeting, UFF asked for a 2.75-percent salary increase for all UFF faculty in addition to the 2.5-percent merit increase. The board denied the union’s request because of a lack of available funding, said Board of Trustees Chairman Steven Scott at that meeting.
In addition to the salary raise, the board unanimously voted for a regulation to give UF President Kent Fuchs the power to approve a new UF engineering project in Sarasota County — the UF Innovation Station. It will give businesspeople and entrepreneurs access to university resources.
