Local 3 Bargaining Report - 8/31/2009
Local 3 Bargaining Report
The CUE Bargaining Team met with UC on August 26 - 28 at the Office of the President at 300 Lakeside Drive in Oakland.
I would like to thank the 4 members of the Berkeley campus that came over; your support is greatly appreciated: Ute Rupp, Michelle Good, Elena Zaslavsky and Linda Morgan; and Loys Everett from UCOP.
During the session the team worked on and gave proposals to UC for the Health and Safety (Art. 8) and Layoff (Art. 13) articles. The CUE team also engaged in more questions with the UC team regarding the Salary Reduction and Furlough Plan.
We are making every attempt to try and gain certain guarantees in regards to the program and its effects, but have been unable thus far to get a guarantee of no layoffs during the life of the program. It is clear to us that even with a guarantee of no layoffs in relation to the salary reduction/furlough program; UC can and will find other reasons to lay off its employees.
We presented UC with an alternative supposal for the salary savings and are still brainstorming other ideas to accomplish the $13M in savings UC is requiring from the CX bargaining unit. On Thursday, members of the team met in a side-bar with Lynn Boland, Shelly Nielson, and Peter Chester (UC chief negotiator) to discuss some alternatives and to discover if the ideas we are considering as alternatives to the UC Salary Reduction/Furlough plan would be seriously considered by UC. If you have any ideas email them to me at: ladyesq2b@yahoo.com
The University has indicated it has prepared to issue temporary layoff notices to CX bargaining unit employees if no agreement is reached before the September 1, 2009 start date for the Salary Reduction/ Furlough Program.
If you receive a temporary layoff notice, we suggest that you immediately do the following:
(1) Contact EDD (the Employment Development Department) and immediately apply for unemployment benefits
a. https://eapply4ui.edd.ca.gov/
b. By telephone at 1-866-333-4606
(2) Contact your local CUE office immediately;
(3) Contact your state and federal legislators
a. http://www.legislature.ca.gov/
The team is scheduled to meet again on September 10th and 11th at UCOP, 300 Lakeside Drive (in the Kaiser Center building), Oakland, and I encourage members to attend.
Remember to participate in the Vote of No Confidence in Mark G. Yudof sponsored by the UCUC Coalition at the polling locations or by absentee ballot at: http://www.upte.org/vote/
Thank you,
Stephanie Dorton
Local 3 Bargainer
