Graduate Teaching Assistants' Coalition -- University of Kansas, Lawrence / Salary

From CGEU

ARTICLE 6

Wages

Section 1: For fiscal year 2003 and the subsequent two fiscal years, the University shall provide a 10% increase to the University’s GTA merit salary pool unless the Legislature imposes specific restrictions or limitations on expenditures for GTA salaries.

Section 2: Except as provided for in section 3, any salary increases provided to GTAs will be provided on a merit basis rather than an across-the-board basis. A GTA whose appointment is renewed within the same department in which the GTA taught the previous semester (excluding summer sessions), will be deemed to have performed at a meritorious level sufficient to entitle the GTA to two-thirds of the authorized departmental average percent merit increase. Any additional merit salary increase will be left to the discretion of the department, acting within the budget parameters provided to the department by the University, based upon its evaluation of the GTA's performance.

Section 3: Each GTA with an appointment of 50% for the academic year will have a base minimum salary in accordance with the following schedule, beginning the first academic year following the ratification of this agreement:

First Academic Year: $8,000.00

Second Academic Year: $9,000.00

Third Academic Year $10,000.00

And all subsequent years

Each GTA, with an appointment of less than or greater than 50% and/or less than an academic year, will be paid on a pro-rata basis of the minimum amount. Nothing in this section prohibits the University from paying a GTA salary above these minimum amounts.