NEIUPI

Your UPI negotiating team met with the administration and their new attorney, Andrea Waintroob, for approximately 90 minutes this morning. Your team passed counter proposals on several articles that have a negotiating history but never reached tentative agreement (TA). We grouped these articles as an evaluation package. Included in this package were articles on evaluation of Teaching and Resource Professionals, evaluation of Instructors and Academic Resource Professionals (ARP), retention of Academic Support Professionals (ASP), status statements for Instructors, ARP and ASP and the two articles that address sanction and termination of bargaining unit employees.

We had anticipated a response to our July 27 counter to the administration’s compensation proposal. Unfortunately, the administration’s response on compensation passed today was incomplete so we will have to wait for the administration’s finished document.

Our lead negotiator, Jamie Daniel, suggested several options for future negotiation sessions: Tuesday mornings, Thursdays, Fridays after 10:30, evenings and weekends. The administration offered the following dates through September so if you are counting days until we reach agreement, mark your calendars for August 31, September 14, September 21 and September 28.