The bargaining team had a productive second bargaining meeting with the administration on Thursday, February 9.
The administration presented their proposed edits to the proposals we brought forth in the last bargaining meeting, and the union presented written proposals to deal with the following issues:
1. Academic Freedom
2. Workplace Health and Safety
Our next bargaining session is scheduled for February 23.
At the top of week #6 of winter quarter we will be holding meetings to invite more input from members to inform possible proposals related to Faculty Development, Benefits for QALs, and Racial Justice and Equity. In week #7 there will be four Union update meetings hosted by the CAT. As we mentioned in our first all-faculty update after our first meeting, first contract negotiations typically progress from non-economic to economic items, and we expect that to be the case here.
Bargaining unit members, keep an eye out for info on the details of these Zoom meetings in a separate email.
Best,
The union bargaining team: Brian Buckley, Patricia Cameron-Loyd, Deirdre Frontczak, Seiko Horibe, Maggie Levantovskaya, Natalie Linnell