Lecturers

Unit 18 lecturers are voting on the new tentative agreement between October 10-16, using the Online Voting Booth developed by Steve Petersen, Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at UCSC.  You will need the ID and password that are being emailed to union members Monday, Oct 10.  If you don't have them, please check your email or contact your local field representative.  If you're not a member, you can vote if you join by Friday, October 14.  Just contact your local field representative for details.

Online Voting Booth 

http://www.ucsc-aft.org/cgi-bin/aft_login.asp

Below is an article by article summary of the changes our bargaining team has tentatively agreed to.  Each article with a change has a link to a pdf of the actual T.A.

For a printer friendly pdf version of this summary without the links to the T.A. language, click here.

Colleagues:

At the end of our twenty-third day of bargaining face-to-face (and eight months of meetings in-between sessions), the bargaining team has reached a tentative agreement with the University for a new contract.

Our new contract makes several significant improvements in job security, wages, and due process.  We will send another message out sometime within the next week that tells you where to get details of the changes that have been agreed AND, for members, instructions on how to vote on ratification.

Click here for an article by article summary of the changes.

Here are some of the major changes:

Bargaining Update #11

Colleagues:

I write to update you on the state of lecturer negotiations after this week’s sessions in Oakland. We have, I believe, entered into the final phase of these negotiations.

As many of you will no doubt have seen or heard, UC is implementing a salary increase for unrepresented faculty and staff this fall. I am very pleased to tell you that a very similar program has been offered to us—and we are now working out with UC how best to spend the available funds. (The exact dollar amount of these funds is not yet clear, but each side has made “supposals” about how the increase can be implemented. Once the actual dollar amount is calculated, we should be able to quickly finalize the economic package and its implementation timetable.)

August 10, 2011

Colleagues:

We continue to make progress at the table. After two full days of bargaining this week, we have reached a tentative agreement on Article 6, which we hope will lead to more annual, as opposed to quarter by quarter, appointments. We have also completed bargaining on the Appointment Articles (7a,7b, and 7c) with the exception of a single issue in Article 7a and a single issue in Article 7b. We are very close to coming to agreement on these two  rather challenging issues.

We are basically done with Summer Session (23) and are very very close on Workload (24). We are waiting for UC to send two articles--Grievance and Arbitration-- that both sides think are done up the command chain for discussion and final approval. So, what is left? Other than a couple of very technical points needing additional clarification, we are down to Layoff, Duration--and the economic articles.

29 July 2011

Colleagues:

First of all, thank you to those members who voted in our contract extension ballot; the authority to extend the contract passed by a very large margin. And, this afternoon, we signed an agreement to extend the contract to the 31^st of August. All of its provisions will remain in effect until then.

Colleagues:

Our contract expires on 31 July 2011. The bargaining team is doing everything it can to insure that we have a new agreement before then. Realistically, given the large bureaucratic organization that is UC, our experience has shown that we will likely not reach an agreement before expiration.

As a result, we are formally requesting that you authorize the bargaining team to extend the contract on a month-to-month basis, so that we do not lose the ability to continue the grievance and arbitration process. We do not plan to extend easily, and we will endeavor to make UC react more quickly than it has to this point. (That said, in the world of UC, things are not moving slowly right now. I believe that they understand the urgency of having this unit in contract, given its proximity to the university's core mission.)

Colleagues:

Forgive the delay in writing with Update #7. This update will be mercifully brief. Last week, one of the main UC management team had a death in the family. We therefore cancelled bargaining, and are next scheduled to meet on 11-12 July and then on five other days in July. The first meeting will be an important meeting, and you should expect to hear from us very soon thereafter, given that the contract is scheduled to expire on 31 July.  There will be more to say at that time.

Alan Karras
Unit 18 Chief Negotiator
Vice-President for Grievances, UC-AFT
Senior Lecturer, International and Area Studies, UCB