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

Present: UCB: Harrison Dekker, Alan Karras; UCD: Axel Borg, Kevin Roddy; UCLA: Juana Sánchez, Miki Goral, Bob Samuels; UCI: Mitchell Brown, Andrew Tonkovich; UCR: Sandy Baringer; UCSB: Katia McClain, Chimene Tucker, Sally Willson Weimer; UCSC: Ken Lyons, Mike Rotkin; UCSD: Ryan Gordon, Kimloan Hill, Fred Lonidier, Stephen Potts; STAFF: Karen Sawislak, Jeff Narten, Michelle Squitieri, Maria Tillmanns

Call to order at 10:15am.
Minutes of October 6, 2007 approved.
Agenda approved as amended.

Executive Session.
• Staff contract with UFRE has been ratified and the final text should be ready soon.
The staff wants more participation in Council meetings. After much discussion, Karras moved that on a one-year, trial basis, UFRE can send one observer to the Executive Session, with the exception of personnel items on the agenda. M/S/P unanimously

Lonidier moved that if a UFRE member is also a union member, their staff status will take priority in determining their role at the Council meeting. M/S/P unanimously
• Budget. Rotkin moved to accept the budget as amended.
• Election. The election will take place at the next Council meeting on April 26, 2008. The Nominations Committee was appointed: Sally Weimer, Ken Lyons, Mitchell Brown
• Website. Lonidier raised the issue of having a central website for UC-AFT.
• UC-AFT Perspective. Articles will be on libraries (Borg and Goral), librarian barginaing update, Staywell program, pension update.

Lunch break. Reconvene with staff at 12:15pm.

President’s Report. Samuels reported on decision regarding staff participation in Executive Sessions.

Executive Director Report. Sawislak reported that recruiting for a field rep for UCLA/UCI was underway. The union was having discussions with the University about the Staywell program and union concerns about privacy of information submitted by participants. If the University makes adjustments, the union may change its position and opt in to allow members to participate.

CFT/AFT relations. The discussion was tabled until the April meeting. M/S/P unanimously.

Unit 17 Bargaining. Rotkin will be the Chief Negotiator. The University proposals unified librarians and brought in new members. A committee will be set up to develop a brochure for the Unit 17.

Unit 18 Workload. There was a meeting with the University to create a list of workload equivalencies. A list is being compiled of tasks done by Unit 18 members outside of the classroom. There will be a one-time salary adjustment in July, 2008.

Social Security Update. Roddy reported that there is a bill in the legislature to deal with the issue of UC employees (lecturers only) not receiving social security benefits. UC opposes a remedy that would include all 50% or less employees (not just Unit 18), since it would be about 11,000 people. The legislature may pass a resolution for all employees, but it would be only advisory, not law.[not sure if this is correct.] Motion to support the second option. M/S/P unanimously.

CFT Convention. The CFT Convention will take place April 11-13 in Oakland. Goral will send out call for locals to nominate delegates.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:10pm

Respectfully submitted,
Miki Goral
Secretary-Treasurer