Bargaining Report No. 31

2008-09: Special Bargaining Report #31: Dec. 4, 2009

Special Bargaining Report #31

12/4/09

The CUE Bargaining Team worked late into the night last night and today we have an agreement with UC on the effects of the temporary lay offs of CX bargaining unit employees contemplated by the University.

Please note this Agreement does not cover employees in the medical centers and those fully funded by contracts and grants. It is applicable to those CX bargaining unit employees who are subject to temporary layoffs because CUE and the University were unable to come to agreement on the Salary Reduction/Furlough Plan.

The University issued temporary layoff notices at some locations and planned to issue temporary layoff notices at other locations in order to capture $13 million dollars of salary savings from CX bargaining unit employees to compensate for the 2009-10 budgetary shortfall. More detailed information will be forthcoming; in the meantime, some of the highlights of the Agreement include the following:

• The ability to take lay off days over the campus closure (you must notify your supervisor in writing if you do not want to take any layoff days over the campus closure).
• The ability to take the pay cut in monthly increments over a one year period or all at once during the time you are actually laid off (you must notify your supervisor in writing if you want the pay cut to occur all at once and possibly be eligible for unemployment benefits).
• Monthly pay cuts will not occur until the February 1st, 2010 pay check
• Layoff days are considered paid days for the purposes of calculating benefits, sick leave and vacation accruals
• Number of layoff days as follows for full-time employees:
  • 40,000 and below 11 days corresponds to 4% reduction
  • 40,001 -- 50,000 13 days corresponds to 5% reduction
  • 50,001 and above 16 days corresponds to 6% reduction
• part-time employees with 50% or greater appointments will maintain their medical benefits at current levels
• University acknowledges that employees who are temporarily laid off will have less time to perform their assigned tasks than they did under the pre-layoff schedules. This fact shall be taken into account in the performance evaluation process.
• No one will be required to work overtime to perform work that would otherwise be performed by another laid off employee
• Lay off notices that have already been sent out at some campuses (e.g. UCI & UCD) will be rescinded.
• Employees who have elected to participate in the START Program during fiscal year 2009-10 shall not be covered by this Agreement.

If the employee terminates START during fiscal year 2009-10 before completing 12 months in the START program and receives a temporary layoff pursuant to this Agreement the total salary reduction for such employee shall not exceed the amount by which the employee's salary would have been reduced under this Agreement.

It is important that you put it in writing to your supervisor if you:

1. do not wish to use layoff days during the campus closure,
2. do not wish to have your pay cut in 12 month segments, but prefer it taken out all at once. These notices must be turned in before the first campus closure day.

Further messages will follow with the full details. Consult the CUE website for additional updates.

In Solidarity,

CUE Bargaining Team

Tel: 510-845-2221
Fax: 510-845-7744
E-mail: clericals@cueunion.org