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AFSCME Clerical Assembly. 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
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AFSCME Clerical Assembly 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.
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 leaveseparate 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).