NEIUPI

We completed our fifth meeting with the administration today. During these meetings, we agreed to bargaining ground rules and offered to roll more articles in the current contract. In the first meeting in January, our team passed two proposals, one on grievance, and the other addressed intellectual property.

Today, the administration passed their written response to the grievance proposal but reported that they will require more time to prepare the administration’s response to our intellectual property proposal. The administration proposed the rollover of the following articles: Personnel Files, Dues Check Off, and Leave Without Salary. We will respond to their proposals at the bargaining session scheduled for next Tuesday.

Today, our negotiating team passed workload proposals that protect the working conditions of bargaining unit members and we anticipate the administration’s response to these proposals next week.

Don’t forget to stop by the UPI tables on Wednesday and Thursday this week…we’ll be in Village Square from 11 am to 3 pm.

Together, we have strength, commitment and community.