CUE has filed numerous Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) against the University of California. Here is a list of the ULPs pending before PERB.
(Updated as of 12/8/05)
PERB Case No. SA-CE-237-H: UC violated HEERA by imposing reprisals and
discriminating against an employee, who had filed eight grievances, to
restrain and coerce this employee from exercising her protected concerted
rights. (Withdrawn: Prima facie standard not met; no adverse action against
employee.)PERB Case No. SA-CE-239-H: UC failed to provide necessary and relevant
information. (Withdrawn: Information was provided.)PERB Case No. SA-CE-240-H: UC failed to provide necessary and relevant
information. (Withdrawn: Information was provided.)PERB Case No. SA-CE-241-H: UC unilaterally implemented performance standards, failing to
meet and discuss. (Withdrawn: performance standards were rescinded.)- PERB Case No. SA-CE-242-H: UC retaliated against an employee because of her
protected activity by placing the employee on indefinite layoff. (Complaint issued)
- PERB Case No. SA-CE-243-H: UC violated PERB law and the contract by failing
to provide notice to the union of replacement of a vacant unit position with
a non-unit position in the Department of Pediatrics. (Complaint issued)
- PERB Case No. SA-CE-246-H: UC violated PERB law and the contract by failing
to provide notice to the union of replacement of a vacant unit position with
a non-unit position in the Department of Information and Educational
Technology: Mediaworks.
- PERB Case No. SA-CE-247-H: UC violated PERB law and the contract by failing
to provide notice to the union of replacement of a vacant unit position with
a non-unit position in the Department of Ophthalmology.
- PERB Case No. SF-CE-725-H: UC unilaterally altered employee vanpool rates, without
notice and an opportunity to meet and confer. PERB has issued a complaint
in this case. No trial date has been set as of yet. The settlement offer
is pending. The CUE Executive Board must decide at its next meeting
whether to accept this offer. (Complaint issued)
- PERB Case No. SF-CE-730-H: Just days after the parties' contract expired on September
30, 2004, UC blithely announced that - for all CX employees Statewide -
it was changing terms and conditions of employment having to do with
leaves of absence for union business, notice of medical separation,
notice of discipline and notice of layoff. These immediate, statewide
unilateral changes severely destabilized the bargaining process. This
case is currently still in the investigation stage. No complaint has been
issued as of yet.
- PERB Case No. SF-CE-733-H: In November and December 2004, UC unilaterally announced
that it was reducing the workweek and the pay of all employees by two
full days (in some instances three full days) during the Christmas
holiday season. UC refused to bargain concerning its decision on this
mandatory subject, instead falsely claiming that the decision was a
fundamental management prerogative. PERB has issued a complaint against
the University in this case. No trial date has been set as of yet. (Complaint issued)
- PERB Case No. SF-CE-739-H: UC has renounced the parties' contractual guarantee that
union bargaining team members can receive reasonable paid release time to
travel to and from bargaining. PERB has issued a complaint in this
matter, but no trial date has been set as of yet. A settlement conference
is pending. (Complaint issued)
- PERB Case No. SF-CE-753-H: CUE's bargaining representative from UCLA, Bert Thomas,
was laid off in blatant retaliation for union activity.
- PERB Case No. SF-CE-759-H: UC has unilaterally transferred work out of the bargaining
unit and retaliated against Susan Ervin UCLA local activist and statewide board member.
- PERB Case No. SF-CE-760-H: UC has unilaterally removed positions from the bargaining
unit and refused to provide information about such illegal unit modifications.
- PERB Case No. SF-CE-763-H: "Global bad faith bargaining" unfair labor practice,
chronicling 16 different types of bad faith bargaining.
- PERB Case No. LA-CE-851-H: After contract expiration, UC unilaterally transferred work
out of the bargaining unit without notice and an opportunity to meet and
confer, failed and refused to provide necessary and relevant information,
refused to bargain effects, and retaliated against an employee for union
activity. PERB has issued a complaint against the University in this
case. No trial date has been said of yet. (Complaint issued)
- PERB Case No. LA-CE-852-H: After contract expiration, UC unilaterally changed work
rules and other policies in terms and conditions of employment without
notice and an opportunity to meet and confer. PERB has issued a complaint in this case. No trial date has been set as of yet. (Complaint issued)
- PERB Case No. (No case No. yet): "global strike coercion/retaliation"
unfair labor practice, chronicling a million different kinds of
calculated coercion and retaliation with respect to all three of the
strikes, including especially all of the discipline, and also some other
kinds of retaliation, and also some unilateral changes having to do with
the strike (vacation policy, payroll changes, etc.).