Wednesday,
September
12,
2007
1. Attending:
Cecelia
Bennelli,
Gayle
Carper,
Holly
Garbo,
James
Caldwell,
John
J.
Miller,
John
P.
Stierman,
Karen
Sears,
Keith
Boeckleman,
Lora
Ebert
Wallace,
Patrick
Stout,
Michael
Romano,
William
Thompson,
Lee
Brice,
Craig
Tollini,
Brian
Clark,
Martha
Klems
2. Grievance
Report:
Six
grievances
filed
on
May
11.
We
so
far
have
won
all
of
them.
a. Departments
need
to
elect
sanction
committee
members
b. When
current
Unit
B
are
replaced
by
temporary
faculty,
UPI
needs
to
hear
about
it.
This
is
a
way
(even
if
unintentional)
of
limiting
the
size
of
the
bargaining
unit.
c. The
only
action
now
pending
is
a
promotion
denial.
d. Formation
of
a
grievance
committee.
i. Craig
Tollini
will
be
a
member
of
this
committee
ii. Mike
Romano
will
also
be
a
member
of
this
committee
3. Communications:
We
will
put
the
tentative
contract
back
up
on
the
web.
4. Treasurer:
No
report.
Steve
has
a
class
at
this
time.
a. Many
new
people
have
joined
the
union.
i. Approximately,
seventy
new
cards.
5. Legislative:
No
report
6. Karen:
Updates
from
Spring
a. Unit
Clarification
i. The
appendix
in
the
Green
Book
lists
positions
that
are
now
obsolete.
Morevoer
there
are
positions
created
since
the
Green
Book’s
appendix
was
written
that
are
not
yet
recognized
by
the
Labor
Board.
We
want
the
University
Admin
to
recognize
eight
such
positions
that
are
in
the
unit
but
not
formally
recognized.
Additionally,
we
would
like
the
positions
of
Assistant
Director
of
International
Studies
and
Site
Director
at
Kibbe
to
be
placed
on
the
list.
ii. Meanwhile,
Admin
wants
a
couple
of
positions
removed
from
the
unit.
b. Gayle
is
chairing
Senate
Distance
Education
Committee.
i. Charge
is
to
set
up
standards
for
distance
education
classes
that
don’t
impede
academic
freedom.
ii. Distance
Ed
Advisory
Committee
(Mike
Romano)
This
committee’s
work
has
been
completed—we
think.
c. Provost
Search
Committee
(John
Miller)
i. Candidates
may
be
on
campus
as
early
as
November
d. Change
in
Update
of
Effective
Date
of
Employment
i. Employment
date
was
pushed
back
two
days.
1. This
solves
the
not
getting
paid
for
August
work
till
May.
2. Now
you
get
a
half
month
check
in
August
and
one
in
May.
ii. Some
department
chairs
also
called
meetings
on
these
days.
e. Positive
Time
Reporting
i. ASPs
are
doing
this
now.
ii. UPI
recognizes
that
the
ability
to
use
time
in
smaller
increments
has
its
advantages.
iii. A
grievance
has
been
filed
to
automate
the
time
reporting
process
f. Union
Training,
Union
Leadership
Institute
in
Decatur
Illinois
weekend
of
October
20.
7. Implementation
Workshops
a. UPI
and
Admin
will
participate
equally
in
these
workshops
b. These
workshops
will
be
coming
up
in
October
and
November
c. Instructions
regarding
changing
DWEs,
Summer
Rotation,
etc.
will
be
going
out
soon.
i. These
will
universally
distributed
within
the
bargaining
unit
ii. John
Stierman
will
also
be
putting
this
up
on
UPI
web.
iii. PAA
Instructions
will
go
out
a
few
days
later
8. Reflections
on
the
ratification
process
a. Everyone
pulled
together.
b. Push
the
ratification
meeting
back
to
a
week
before
the
vote
c. Respond
quickly
and
appropriately
(
and
in
person—not
by
e
‐
mail)
to
attacks.
d. Respond
quickly
to
misprints,
“misbolding”
in
the
tentative
contract
e. Combat
assumption
that
voting
down
a
contract
may
result