Our CX Unit Bargaining Team met with the UC in San Diego on Dec. 10 and 11, during which the UC made their second inadequate wage proposal. They also gave us their proposal on Article 9 – Holidays and said they would like to work out a process on reclassification out of the bargaining unit in Article 2 – Agreement.
Our team gave responses to UC proposals on Article 16 – Medical Separation, Article 36 – Sick Leave, and Article 42 – University Benefits.
UC also responded to our proposal on Article 32 – Job Abandonment & Resignation, where we asked for less than 10 days for members to receive their final check. UC agreed to come down to six business days for the final check, bringing us to a tentative agreement (TA) on Article 32 – Job Abandonment & Resignation.
Remarkably, UC did not want to include “gender transition” and “childbirth” which we added to Article 21 – Nondiscrimination. UC felt that there was no difference between gender “expression” and gender “transition” nor between “pregnancy” and “childbirth” until we showed them that both phrases are now included in the UC’s Personnel Policies for Staff Members.
UC then relented and we reached a TA on Article 21 – Nondiscrimination.
Our CX Bargaining Team remained firm on our Wage proposal (Article 45), keeping longevity raises, equity raises and signing bonus intact in our counter proposal to UC. We also countered on Article 9 – Holidays, asking for a floating holiday to cover part of the winter break when we are asked to use vacation time or leave without pay.
The two teams had a robust discussion on the use of AI and how our members seem to be training AI for our own jobs!
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