CUE met with UC at the Office of the President in a specially scheduled bargaining session on November 3-5, 1999. This session was a last ditch effort to reach agreement on CUE's proposal designed to speed up bargaining. In the end, we were able to achieve common ground with UC on a large number of mainly non-economic contract articles. For many of these, UC agreed in principle to accept language already existing in other UC contracts.
The issues which remain to be bargained are the really difficult and important ones. Top among these are wages (CUE seeks to restore what UC clericals have lost in real income in recent years, an end to incentive awards, equity in pay between campuses, and compensation for those clericals who are topped out); non-discrimination (CUE hopes for
fast, inexpensive remedies for staff who are victims of discrimination based on race, age or sex); and work rules (CUE hopes to establish the principle that UC will implement only work rules which are necessitated because of bona fide business or health & safety reasons).
We are meeting with UC again in November, 1999 at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (17 & 18) and at the Office of the President (19th). In addition, we have set aside the first two weeks in December and will select a number of days to bargain then as well. The hardest part of our struggle is still ahead of us.
In order to move UC to settle with CUE quickly we need your support. Please join and ask your coworkers to join CUE. Wear a sticker that says you support CUE fast track bargaining and put up a sign at your work station. Contact your local CUE representatives to get stickers and signs.
CUE's Bargaining Team:
- Kris Amaral (San Francisco)
- Christine Benoit (Riverside)
- Debbie Ceder (Santa Barbara)
- Jennifer Goodheart (Santa Cruz)
- Lyn Kelly (Los Angeles)
- Robin Luczak (San Diego)
- Linda Moser (Davis)
- Joanne Murray (Santa Barbara)
- Cynthia Norman (Irvine)
- John Randolph (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
- Margy Wilkinson (Berkeley)
- Mark Blum (Chief Negotiator)
