Bargaining Unit Council 9 (BUC 9) met on Friday, March 11, in Long Beach, as part of the Board of Directors meeting. Here is the Chair's report:
CSUEU Bargaining Unit Council (BUC) 9
March 2016 Meeting
Long Beach, California
Unit 9 Council Members in Attendance:
- Rich McGee (San Bernardino)
- Ricardo Uc (San Luis Obispo)
- Steve Sloan (San Jose)
- Matthew Kay (Sacramento)
- Ken Jones (Fresno)
- Gloria Allen (Sonoma)
- Saul Sanchez (San Diego)
Visitors:
Lori Williams, Susan Smith, Joseph Jelincic (staff)
New Classification Proposal
Lori Williams, from the Classification Committee, secured the BUC's approval to begin the process of proposing a new employee classification for Instructional Designers. Currently instructional designers are classified as Information Technology Consultants (ITC's).
Exempt Employees and Fixed Schedules
Exempt employees are increasingly being told by their managers that the manager can set "core hours" of 8 am to 5 pm. This is false, and such attempts should be challenged as contract violations under Article 18.7:
18.7 For exempt classifications, there are no fixed, minimum or maximum hours in a workday or workweek.
Data Access
An employee asked a question about staff participation in management data access requests. The manager instructed a Unit 9 Information Technology employee to download and review a deceased campus employee's work e-mail messages, in order to pull out specific messages related to university business. Such a task is within the scope of Unit 9 work, even if it may be uncomfortable, and is an appropriate work assignment.
Managers Performing Bargaining Unit Work
Managers may perform bargaining unit work in "de minimis" (insignificant) amounts, generally considered to be 6-8 minutes per week. Managers performing bargaining unit work continues to be a problem within Unit 9. When it happens, it should be challenged with a grievance citing Article 17.5:
17.5 Appropriate administrators may occasionally perform Bargaining Unit work on a minimal basis for reasons which include, but are not limited to: instructing employees, emergencies, developing new methods and procedures, and safety.
Managers can manage projects without infringing on bargaining unit work.
Contract Bargaining Preparation
Susan Smith, Vice President for Representation, reminded us all that full contract bargaining starts in only 9 months. She is asking each bargaining unit to develop at least 5 survey questions about bargaining goals, not including Article 20 (Salary). If you have ideas for bargaining survey questions, or contract sections which need clarification or improvement, please send your suggestions via e-mail to the Unit 9 chair at csueu.unit9@gmail.com.
A separate BUC meeting will be held later to discuss bargaining in depth.
Steward Training
Susan Smith has asked us to investigate options for putting part of the training for new stewards online. If implemented, the goal is to have such an approach tested and ready to use at the start of the next contract (2017), or approximately 18 months from now.
Three more steward trainings are being planned for the current contract. Locations and dates are not yet determined.
Information for New BUC Members
Since there are several new members on the Unit 9 Council, we reviewed the meet and confer process, as well as the different leave time types and associated campus and union procedures.
Gender Equity Study
Gloria Allen provided an update into the Unit 9 gender equity study, which is in the preliminary stages.
Classification and Qualification Standards (CQS) Readily Available Again
Many thanks to headquarters staff, who have placed a copy of the CQS documents in the "Library" folder on CSUEU's web site, www.csueu.org. The Chancellor's Office recently put CQS documents and tech letters, which had been publicly available, behind a login. It should be assumed that they are monitoring who views those documents.
Respectfully submitted,
Rich McGee
Chair, CSUEU Bargaining Unit 9
Some Notes On This Report
- The CQS documents do not currently appear in the top level listing of the Library on the CSUEU web site. To find them, use the menu on the left side of the Library listing and select (click on) the "On the Job - Know Your Rights" section. Then select "CQS" and finally "BU 9". Ta-da! You have CQS documents.
- The document Library on the CSUEU web site can be reached from a link under the "Resources" section of the site's navigation menu at the top of every page. We mention this in case you mysteriously do not have this report and its embedded link in front of you when you're researching classificatons.
- In the format conversion of this report to the document submitted, some minor typos were introduced, which are corrected for readability here. No language was changed; only punctuation, minor formatting, a typo in the middle of a word, and some capitalization.
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