Bargaining History

Between August 1998 and December 2000, CUE negotiated its first contract with UC. Many issues arose and were settled in separate agreements. Read about the history of our first negotiations here.

• Summary of Contract Gains

  See how CUE's first contract agreement is markedly improved from the old AFSCME contract that used to cover clerical employees.

• 1998-2000 Bargaining Reports

  Read about each bargaining session with UC from August 1998-December 2000.

• Casual Bargaining

  Employees who have limited appointments now have protection against frivolous breaks in service.

• Incentive Award Announcement

  Long-fought incentive awards granted.

• Incentive Award Settlement Agreement

  The University is obligated to pay out promised awards to clerical employees.

Between May 2001 and May 2003, CUE negotiated improvements to its first contract with UC.

• 2000-2003 Bargaining Reports

  Read about each bargaining session with UC from May 2001-May 2003.

• 2001 Bargaining Platform

  A recent CUE survey and input from around the state helped to build the platform for our improvements to the contract.

• Bargaining Correspondence

  Read some of the correspondence between CUE's chief negotiator and UC's chief negotiator

Between August 2003 through May 2004 CUE reopened the contract on three articles: Wages, Parking, and Benefits. Negotiations ended in impasse, mediation, and finally fact-finding before UC imposed its last, best offer.

• Reopener Timeline
• 2003-2004 Reopener Reports

  Read about each bargaining session with UC from August 2003-May 2004.

• What Is Impasse?

  These reopener negotiations resulted in impasse. Read about the process here.

• Scope of Fact-Finding Report
• Summary of Fact-Finding Report
• Fact-Finding Report
• 3/8/05 Moser Reply to Sharon Hayden rejecting UC's last best and final offer

Between July 2004 and December 2005, CUE engaged in successor negotiations on improvements to the whole contract. Impasse in those negotiations led to mediation between the parties which resulted in a tentative agreement ratified by CUE members on 2/15/06.

• 2004-2005 Bargaining Reports

  Read about the bargaining sessions with UC as well as Bert's Bubbles.

• FAQ: the new CUE/UC clerical contract
• 2005 Tentative Agreement language ratified for new contract
• 06/17/05: Laboratory's Revised Last, Best and Final Wage Proposal

  Tentative agreement on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory wages for fiscal year 2005-2007

• Incentive Award Program (IAP) Agreement for 2004-2005
• CUE Proposals for 2004 Successor Negotiations and UC's initial proposals.

In 2006, UC proposed changes to staff pension benefits mid-contract, necessitating immediate negotiation. Because these proposed changes would affect all staff, an unprecedented coalition bargaining team was organized comprising members from CUE, AFSCME and UPTE. This UC Union Coalition (UCUC) Bargaining Team met repeatedly with the University beginning October, 2006. By May, 2007 with more than 60,000 UC Union members putting tremendous pressure on the University over their planned pension paycuts, the University announced a delay in their proposed implementation. Read the Coalition bargaining updates here.

• Pension Bargaining Update #8
• Pension Bargaining Update #7
• Pension Bargaining Update #6
• Pension Bargaining Update #5
• Pension Bargaining Update #4
• Pension Bargaining Update #3
• Pension Bargaining Update #2

In 2008, UC & CUE began successor negotiations on improvements to the whole contract using a new process called Interest Based Bargaining (IBB).

• April 14, 2008, No. 1
• April 28-29, 2008, No. 2
• May 16 & 19, 2008, No. 3
• June 5, 2008, No. 4
• June 26-27, 2008, No. 5
• July 8-9, 2008, No. 6