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Faculty Bargaining Units, Contracts, and Agreements

After 16 bargaining sessions that were open to all members and 6 sessions of mediation with a federal mediator, we came to an agreement on a successor contract for Unit 2, and we reached tentative agreements on most of the Articles for Unit 1.

Our Unit 2 successor agreement was ratified by a vote of majority support from our members, signed by the Provost and ten members of the UA-UNM bargaining team, and became active on March 10, 2026.

Bargaining Unit 2 Faculty consists of temporary part-time instructors, adjuncts, and term teaching faculty employed at the main campus in Albuquerque and the branch campuses of Gallup, Taos, Los Alamos, and Valencia, and exclude the provost, senior vice provost, associate provost, deputy provost, chancellor, dean, associate dean, assistant dean, department/division chairs, academic directors, all visiting faculty and working retirees, and those excluded as managerial, confidential, and/or supervisory.

The complete Unit 1 successor agreement includes every article UA-UNM and the Administration tentatively agreed to at the bargaining table. However, on two important issues, paid Union release time (Article 4) and enforceable layoff protections (Article 20, Reduction in Force), the Administration’s Last, Best, and Final Offer was imposed on us through binding arbitration, not negotiated agreement. The Arbitrator selected the Administration’s version of both articles under the New Mexico Public Employee Bargaining Act, even though his own written Opinion and Award found UA-UNM’s Reduction in Force proposal ‘more persuasive.’ Because these two issues went to arbitration, our members never got to vote on this contract.

Bargaining Unit 1 Faculty consists of all faculty members with the titles of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor; Professor; Professor of Practice; Research Lecturer I, II, III; Research Assistant Professor; Research Associate Professor; Research Professor; Lecturer I, II, III; Senior Lecturer I, II, III; Principal Lecturer I, II, III; Instructor; and Senior Instructor employed at the main campus in Albuquerque and the branch campuses of Gallup, Taos, Los Alamos, and Valencia and excludes Provost, Senior Vice Provost, Associate Provost, Deputy Provost, Chancellor, Dean, Associate Dean, Assistant Dean, Department/Division Chairs, Academic Directors, all visiting faculty, working retirees, and those excluded as managerial, confidential, and/or supervisory.

Memoranda of Agreement

The below are signed agreements between UA-UNM and UNM administration beyond the Unit 1 and Unit 2 collective bargaining agreements.

Past Agreements Archive