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CTC – ratification vote – online

If you are unable to come to campus to cast your ratification vote, please use the on line voting process.

Online voting:

Click on the following link to vote:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Contract_ratification_vote_May_18_version

Do not enter the site if you do not intend to vote and only want to examine the ballot. The online ballot is identical to the paper ballot posted earlier. Once you enter the on line voting site, you are entered in the system as a vote and any latter activity online or casting a paper ballot will cause all of your “attempts” to be excluded.

Membership meetings and voting

Membership meetings are scheduled as follows:

Wednesday, May 25 at 2- 4 pm in LWH 1001
Thursday, May 26 at 3:15 – 5:15 in SU 214

Please review the materials posted on line or sent to you by email. Bring or send your questions to the meetings.

Voting begins this evening (May 23) and will end on June 1 at noon. You can vote by paper ballot or on line.

Paper Ballot:
You may cast your paper ballot by putting it in the drop box at the Library Reference desk or I will be in Village Square on Wednesday, June 1 from 9:00 am until noon with a ballot box. Download and print the ballot form now.

Double Envelope Voting – Ratification of Administration’s May 18 Proposal

1. Only UPI members are eligible to vote. If you are a fair share member, you may sign a membership card to change your status and thereby become eligible to vote.

2. Ballots will be available at the membership meetings and in an attached email file sent to UPI members.

3. To vote, you will need a hard copy of the official ballot and two unmarked envelopes. Envelopes will be available at the membership meetings.

4. Mark your choice and place the ballot in an unmarked envelope. Do not write on this envelope(inner)

5. Seal the unmarked envelope inside the second envelope. Seal the second (or outside) envelope. Print your name on the front and place your signature across the seal. Make sure the printed name is legible so that your eligibility may be confirmed against the UPI membership list.

6. Ballots will be discarded if you are not a UPI member or your name cannot be read to confirm your eligibility.

Online Voting:

Click on the following link to vote:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Contract_ratification_vote_May_18_version

Do not enter the site if you do not intend to vote and only want to examine the ballot. The online ballot is identical to the paper ballot attached to this email. Once you enter the online voting site, you are entered in the system as a vote and any latter activity on line or casting a paper ballot will cause all of your “attempts” to be excluded.

NEIU/UPI chapter executive board recommends ratification to members

Today, I met with the NEIU chapter executive board. We reviewed the tentative agreement and the chapter executive board unanimously passed the following motion:

The NEIU/UPI Chapter Executive Board recommends the ratification of the collective bargaining agreement to the NEIU/UPI membership.

I am attaching summaries of the following to help you review the tentative agreement: compensation FY11 through FY14; May 18 tentative agreements; and contract achievements gained through negotiations.

The tentative agreement is posted at
http://www.neiu.edu/~tagree/

If you wish to compare the tentative agreement with the 2004-2008 agreement, you will find the latter at:

2004-08 CBA

Tentative agreement is posted

The tentative agreement is posted at:

http://www.neiu.edu/~tagree/

Membership meetings are scheduled for Wednesday, May 25 at 2-4 in LWH 1001 and on May 26 at 3:15 – 5:15 location to be announced. Study the agreement and bring your questions. I will post some summary documents later on today.

Ballots and voting instructions to follow.

May 18 settlement relationship to last, best and final

The May 18 settlement of remaining issues is added to the last best and final (LBF) posted on the university website. If the LBF has language on one of the May 18 issues then the May 18 settlement replaces that section of the last best and final. So to those sending emails about giving up compensation for FY11 and 12, it is still there. The May 18 settlement extends what is happening in FY13 and FY 14.

The final version of the entire agreement will be posted late next Monday so you won’t have to go back and forth between documents. I sent the May 18 summary so members had some idea of what happened to the remaining issues. A membership meeting will be scheduled next week, so keep generating questions…