Bargaining updates: 10/21
Reminder about our monthly union lunch tomorrow, Tuesday 10/22, at 12pm in the Classroom!
Management Makes Bid to Preserve Maximum Unilateral Power
Management provided a “mini-package” of counters, which included Article 2 Union Security, Article 3 No Discrimination, and Management Rights. They want the three articles to be accepted together, and are not willing to sign any as individual Tentative Agreements. They refused multiple times to elaborate on their reasoning or provide any kind of justification on why they want to group these proposals together. Management is clearly using our rights as a bargaining chip to get us to agree to their overly prescriptive Management Rights Article.
Your bargaining team rejected management’s mini-package, and we are not willing to tie Articles 2 and 3 to the Management Rights article.
Management said that they will not be responding to our Governance and Financial Transparency article because they don’t view it as a mandatory subject of bargaining. Nothing stops management from agreeing to put things into the contract that are outside mandatory subjects of bargaining.
Selection and Hiring
Your bargaining team offered to have an open conversation at the table on Selection and Hiring rather than shuffling proposals back and forth with management, and asked again for management to provide their definition of what a promotion is. Management did not have an answer. Management said they are unsure how to begin to have a conversation with us on this topic.
Academy Management Dissolves Youth Action for the Planet
The program will not be renewed and management is working to restore the grant money that had already been awarded to the institution to fund this program.
Gender Inclusive Workplace
Management asked a clarifying question on the language about the changing room in our article Gender Inclusive Workplace.
Vending Machine
After counters from management and from our Bargaining team, we reached a tentative agreement and will sign it next week.
Finance Update
Jim Gohary, Chief Financial Officer, and Mathew Lau, Senior Director of Finance, gave your bargaining team an update on the FY24 and FY25 budgets. Reminder that they are giving a finance update to all staff tomorrow morning, 10/22 at 9:30am. We look forward to hearing if this is the same update we received in bargaining, and will send out a separate email with details after Tuesday.
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