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Art I: Name
Art II: Objectives
Art III: Membership
and Dues
Art IV: Local Structure
Art V: Statewide Structure
Art V.A.1: Officers:
Eligibility
Art V.A.2: Officers:
Duties
Art V.A.3: Officers:
Terms of Office
Art V.A.4: Officers:
Term limits
Art V.B: Executive
Board
Art V.C: Trustees
Art V.D: Election
Appeal Panel
Art V.E: Salaries
Art VI: Elections
Art VI.G: Elections:
Recall
Art VII: Staff
Art VIII: Collective
Bargaining
Art IX: Strike
Votes
Art X: Referenda
Art XI: Amendments
Art XII: Parliamentary
Procedure
Art XIII: Miscellany
Art XIV: Bill of
Rights of Members
Art XV: Affiliation
or Dissolution
App A: Elections
Code
App A: Elections
Code: Challenges
App B: Protecting
the Union
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Coalition of University Employees (CUE)
CONSTITUTION
I. NAME
The name of this organization, shall be Coalition of University Employees (CUE).
The headquarters of this union shall be in Berkeley, California.
II. OBJECTIVES
The objectives of this union are to organize clerical employees of the University of
California system in order to secure fair wages and better working conditions and to contribute our energies toward a renewed, activist labor movement and toward support of public education in California and the needs of the University of California. Specifically, they include the following:
- To provide information, education, and support to all members and to strengthen and safeguard democratic principles and rights for the members of this union;
- To participate in making decisions affecting our working lives;
- To cooperate with other labor organizations and other organizations to improve the quality of life for working people everywhere and in particular to foster cooperation among unions representing employees at the University of California;
- To engage in civic, social, political, legal, legislative, economic, cultural, and educational activities on a local, national, or international level that shall support the needs of workers;
- To be vigilant concerning the many health and safety problems which undermine the health and shorten the very lives of clerical workers and to fight for health and safety on the job.
- To defend and promote the right to work in an atmosphere free of abusive or demeaning treatment and to fight against all forms of discriminatory practices, which adversely affect workers' human and civil rights.
III. MEMBERSHIP AND DUES
- Membership in CUE is open to current employees in the Clerical and Allied Services bargaining unit at the University of California, defined as PERB's Unit 12, including the various hospitals and laboratories. Currency of employment examples include employees on layoff status, furlough, approved leave of absence, and those waiting for grievance resolution.
- The Coalition of University Employees shall not discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, political affiliation, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, physical orientation, physical or mental disability, age, or citizenship.
- Membership must be maintained through payment of dues as specified in section III. D. In order to enjoy rights of membership, including the right to vote, the individual's dues must be not more than 2 months in arrears.
- The monthly membership dues are one-half of one percent (0.5%) of gross monthly salary. All dues shall be paid monthly by payroll deduction.
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