TO: All Faculty
FROM: Ted Montgomery, Negotiating Team Chair
DATE: February 13, 2004
NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
What’s at stake in this vote? You’ve already received details in previous newsletters. This is just a quick reminder.
Workload – Quality is the issue.
- Management insists that there will be no improvement to workload unless the faculty accept one-on-one bargaining with no limits except annual teaching hours.
- The workload formula is at stake
- Management’s offer removes weekly teaching limits – existing since the Colleges opened in 1967.
Salary
- Salaries that will fall below the high school teachers
- Loss of principle that sets our salaries between the high schools and universities
- No Retroactive pay
Benefits
- The Drug Card which will reduce our access to new drugs
- No relief for retirees or persons on LTD
- No relief on our LTD premiums
Leaves
- Reduced sick leave for new hires
- Reduced time release for faculty negotiators
Grievances
- More delay in scheduling arbitration hearings and getting resolution
Staffing
- No reduced use of part-time and sessionals
Job Security
- Seniority for “temporary” managers
Copyright
- Nothing
Sabbaticals
- Nothing
Management has been perfectly clear ― if there is no strike mandate there will be no further improvements to their offer. Nothing will be added, nothing removed.
The only way to get a realistic offer on the table is with the pressure of a strike mandate.
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