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U of MN Contract Negotiations 2013
Agenda:12:10 - 12:15 Welcome, agenda review
12:15 - 12:35 Vote on Negotiating Priorities Overall priorities Priorities for wages Priorities for benefits Priorities for job security Priorities for working conditions Other issues Support for proposals from other AFSCME locals
12:35- 12:40 Recruit volunteers to work on topic areas
12:40- 12:50 Defending and expanding our benefits Coordination with Civil Service on demanding benefit parity with P&A staff What we are doing so far to respond so far to the attacks on our health
insurance New ideas
12:50 - 12:55 Set next meeting; announcements.
Overall priorities - 3800:
Overall priorities – 3801:
Wages: Top priorities:
Maintaining steps. Across the board increases that at a minimum match the cost of living
increases. Raising the scales by adding steps at the top and taking steps from the
bottom.
Fixing the step system: Step compression If somebody is hired at a higher step than those people currently working in
the department, everybody will be raised to at least the same step as the newly hired person.
Mandate a system for determining what step a person is hired at, based on education and experience.
Additional wage suggestions:
Increasing the accrual rates for vacation and sick leave. Having people move up a step every six months for the next two years,
rather than just one step per year to make up for previous step freezes. Closing the University (with paid days off) between Christmas and New
Years Adding paid holidays throughout the year, including Administrative
Professionals Day.
Priorities for Benefits: No increases in premiums or co-pays.
Institute a wage-based (i.e. sliding scale) model for premiums.
Additional benefits proposals: Benefits parity with P&A staff, particularly regarding parental leave
and pension contributions. Addition of glasses and contact coverage. Continue with premium relief program. Continue the Wellness Program. Premium rates for part-time workers shall be the same as for full-time
workers. There shall be no discrimination in insurance provisions based on
gender identity.
Priorities for Job Security: Strengthen language to protect people from being
laid off and expanding options for people who are laid off. University-wide bumping. Strengthening seniority rights. Elimination of selection criteria. Elimination of subsequent probation. Extending the layoff notification period. Internal hiring priority Greater access to technology training and skills development
courses.
Introduce language to mandate sane staffing ratios.
Priorities for Working Conditions:
Anti-bullying or respectful workplace language.
Augmentation for increased workload due to staffing reductions.
Stronger flex scheduling language.
No clerical worker shall be supervised by a person who has not been thoroughly trained as a supervisor.
Other priority proposals: Full restoration of the Regents Scholarship.
Bereavement leave separate from sick or vacation.
We will support proposals being advanced by the technical and health care locals, unless they directly conflict with one of our priorities.
Next steps for priorities: Volunteers needed to develop materials and actions
on priority issues: Living Wage
Defending Health Insurance
Parity with P&A Parents
Regents Scholarship Restoration
Respectful Workplace and Supervisors
Sane Staffing Ratios
Defending our Benefits:Coordination with Civil Service on
demanding benefit parity with P&A staff
What we are doing so far to respond so far to the attacks on our health insurance
New ideas
Next Steps and Wrap-up:Regents Public Budget Hearing: June 5 at 12:30
Proposed next Assembly meeting – Tuesday, June 18
Support extending bargaining rights to child care and home care workers.
Take solidarity photo for AFSCME local 3299 (UC workers going on strike next week).
