All the candidates for positions on the board of UC-AFT Local 1474 were (re)elected. Not a surprise since there were no major changes or contested positions. All the more reason to thank the members who voted in this election, and in voting, supported your union's process and expressed your appreciation for the time and efforts of your colleagues.

Please come to a CANDIDATES' FORUM here at the Berkeley campus.

Thursday, April 24
IRLE Conference Room
2521 Channing Way

Both the Assembly and Senate seats that represent the Berkeley campus are
open seats in this year's election. Your questions will help educate the
candidates about what's important to you.

Assembly District 14 (Berkeley to Richmond) -- 5:00 pm

UC Berkeley campus, at the Faculty Club

10:00 am-12 pm
President’s State of Union (With Staff)
Budget Report
Election
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-3:30 UC-AFT Council (With Staff)
Executive Director Report
a. AFT/CFT Relations
b. Unit 17 Report
c. Unit 18 Report
d. Grievances
e. Legislative Update
f. Coalition work

UC-AFT Meeting
January 19, 2008 DRAFT
Humanities Building, UC Irvine

In an ongoing effort to study undergraduate student writing, the College Writing Programs is undertaking a research project to collect written assignments from faculty teaching undergraduate courses throughout the campus. The purposes of this research are to gain an accurate sense of the range and types of writing demands that students face in their undergraduate careers at Berkeley and to develop a collection of assignments that can be used to guide faculty in their work with students.

Please click on the following link (or paste the URL into your browser) to find a list of equivalencies negotiated by the lecturers' bargaining team with the UC Office of the President.

Lecturers' workload equivalencies list

The term "equivalency" refers to work in addition to your courses that must now be compensated if performance of those duties is "required or clearly expected" by your department. Some lecturers are already compensated by their departments for these activities as part of their appointment percentage. But if you're not compensated for these activities and want to be compensated for them, please let us know.

To UC-AFT represented lecturers and librarians:

I am writing as a follow up to my January message about the new UC Wellness program (Staywell). As you know, the UC-AFT Executive Board had joined all of the other UC unions in opting out of this program, because it was not clear to the Board that UC had made adequate provisions to ensure members' privacy.

Below please find an article-by-article summary of the changes to the librarian contract negotiated in successor bargaining for the Unit 17 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). A ratification vote will be held at all campuses during the week of March 31-April 4. There will also be a mail ballot option for those unable to vote on their campuses. Only union MEMBERS have the right to vote.

Click here to read the summary.

To review the texts of the tentatively agreed on articles, click on the links below:

Revised Articles

Article 1--Recognition
Article 2--Nondiscrimination