February 22, 2010, 6:03 pm
There is no bargaining session scheduled this week but we are having membership meetings and the tables in Village Square. John Murphy, former NEIU chapter president and former Local 4100 vice president, is recruiting retirees to help us with the tables this week. We are going to distribute info on the latest legislative actions as well as rallying our members. If you haven’t spent some time at the time please consider joining your colleagues for an hour or so this wednesday or thursday. Chat with the retirees and find out if life is better after you’ve done your time at NEIU. To sign up for table “sitting”, follow the directions below: The tables are set up on Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 to 3:00 pm.
Instructions: go to http://upi-tabling.genbook.com
1) Click on the “UPI Table Volunteer” link
2) Click on the “No preference” link
3) Select the date you‘d like to volunteer
4) Click on the time you’d like to volunteer –(this will automatically register you for 1 hour)
5) Enter your details as prompted—(your phone number must include an area code)
6) Confirm the appointment
February 18, 2010, 8:44 am
Membership meetings are scheduled next week. It is important that each department/program/unit has at least one representative at the meeting:
- Wednesday, February 24, Student Union 003 – noon – 1 pm
- Thursday, February 25, LWH (CLS) 1002 – 1:40 – 2:50 pm
Weekly update on negotiations
Your UPI negotiating team met with the administration team on Tuesday. Our team passed counter proposals for the Grievance article and the Leave without salary article. It looks like we are getting closer to agreement on Grievance. We continue to wait for the administrative response in the form of a counter proposal to Intellectual Property article that we passed to the administration in early January.
Last week we passed workload proposals for Teaching and Resource Professionals as well as Instructors and Academic Resource Professionals (formerly known as temporary Resource Professionals). We did not receive counter proposals from the administration for workload.
On Tuesday, your UPI negotiating team proposed the roll over of the current language in the following articles: 26 – Retention; 27 – Tenure and 28 – Promotion. The administration passed proposals (with changes to the current language) for the following articles: 17 – Information and Reporting; 22 – Employment Status Statement; 26 – Retention and 30 – Sanctions and Termination.
See you at the membership meetings next week…
