WHERE IS OUR MONEY?
During bargaining at UC Santa Barbara on February 10 and 11, 1999, UC's Chief Negotiator, Sharon Hayden, told CUE's bargaining team that it is the UC Chancellors who are holding up our money until we give UC the unlimited right to implement changes in all clericals' work rules (including attendance standards, dress codes, changes in work schedules, etc).
CUE made a series of proposals, exhausting every reasonable possibility to meet UC's requirements for providing clerical staff the 2% pay increase authorized by the legislature.
UC rejected each and every CUE proposal.
CUE asked UC to specify what they meant by work rules, and a narrow list was presented by UC. When CUE requested that UC agree to their own list --
UC REFUSED.
CUE offered to let UC implement work rules, provided there was a reasonable business or health & safety reason, and if employees could grieve the rules or take the matter to a neutral arbitrator if there did not appear to be a business or health & safety reason --
UC REFUSED.
CUE offered to bargain work rules campus-by-campus, agreeing to UC's condition that the university would retain the authority to impose its rules if agreement was not reached. CUE was willing to accept even this condition, provided UC agreed to allow a neutral facilitator participate to help reach a compromise. This is a State of California program used in the public schools and community colleges, and would be free to UC --
UC REFUSED.
UC has demanded that CUE agree to give them the unlimited right to implement or change work rules. This, UC says, is the only way they will give us our 2% wages, due last October.
UC's next move was to cancel the dates for the next bargaining session, which would have been held March 17-19, 1999 in San Diego.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
First,
join CUE - UC needs to know that UC clericals support CUE in bargaining. Second - send a
letter to your state Representative, the Governor, UC President Richard Atkinson and your local Chancellor - demanding that UC give us the money we are owed. (You can find out who your Representative is at
http://www.assembly.ca.gov , or CUE can provide you with a list of Assembly Members from your area -- just ask us.)
DISCRIMINATION
On the issue of discrimination - CUE proposed that the grievance process (including access to an impartial arbitrator) should be available for those who have experienced discrimination based on race, age, sex, etc. UC rejected that proposal. UC's position is that employees who experience discrimination should not expect resolution within the
University, but instead should go to an outside agency or to the courts for relief.
We encourage you to print this message out and share it with your coworkers. If you know anyone who isn't receiving our emails and would like to, please have them send us their email address at
clericals@igc.org.
CUE's Bargaining Team:
- Kris Amaral (San Francisco)
- Christine Benoit (Riverside)
- Debbie Ceder (Santa Barbara)
- Mary Harrington (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)
