NEIUPI

Membership meetings are scheduled next week. It is important that each department/program/unit has at least one representative at the meeting:

1. Wednesday, February 24, Student Union 003 – noon – 1 pm
2. 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…

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.