Below please find a description of the tentative agreement concluded in the current reopener bargaining between the Unit 17 and the University.

• Salary -- 2% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2005 (retroactive to October 1, 2005); 2% cost-of-living adjustment in 2006; 3% cost-of-living adjustment in 2007. Payment of the cost-of-living adjustments in 2006 and 2007 is contingent upon the University's receipt of the funding levels specified in the current state budget compact. Funding for merit increases does not change.
• Duration -- The entire contract is extended through March 31, 2008. (The current MOU expires on August 30, 2006.) The Union has the right to reopen Salary in the event that the state compact that guarantees these cost-of-living increases is not fully funded in 2006 or 2007, and the University does not otherwise provide cost-of-living adjustments of 2% by October 1, 2006 and 3% by October 1, 2007.
• Professional Development Funds - For the 2005 fiscal year, a 15% overall increase in the funds dedicated to professional development in the current MOU; for the 2006 and 2007 fiscal years, an increase of 24.3% over the funds dedicated to professional development in the current MOU. Certain campuses that have been on the low end of per-capita funding have received slightly larger increases (UCSD, UCSC, UCLA, UCB). At a minimum, over the contract term each campus will get at least a 20% raise (equivalent to at least $100 per capita raise) over the present minimum funding specified in the contract. In addition, there has been a small increase in the UCOP fund for librarian research.
• Holiday Closures -- An agreement with UCLA and UCOP to resolve the holiday closure issue at that campus that requires this campus to follow the current contract language (UCLA may no longer rely on a campus-based policy to deny requests for alternative arrangements under the MOU).
• Increase of minimum salary to $40,000 -- The University will increase Step I in the Assistant Librarian range from $37,920 to $39,000 effective retroactively to Oct. 1, 2005 and will apply the 2% cost-of-living increase and then move the bottom step to $40,008 effective October 1, 2006. Only the bottom step in the Assistant Librarian range will be adjusted.
• Labor-Management Committee to Study Recruitment and Retention Extension and re-formation of the committee authorized in the Librarian Compensation, Recruitment, and Retention side letter. This committee will focus on salary issues as they are related to recruitment and retention.
• Expiration of Side Letter Allowing Hourly Intermittent Positions. The side letter to the MOU that allowed the University to utilize Hourly Intermittent Librarian positions will expire on August 30, 2006. In reaching the settlement detailed above, the union successfully resisted the University's effort to extend the Hourly Intermittent side letter to March 31, 2008. The Hourly Intermittent Librarian position will therefore cease to exist on August 30, 2006.
• Addition of Protected Categories to Non-Discrimination Article New language has been added to Article 2 that prohibits the University from discriminating against members of the unit on the basis of

pregnancy, gender identity, or ancestry.