Bargaining Minutes: April 19, 2012

The bargaining session on April 19, 2012, proved to be uneventful for the most part.  Below is a copy of PSCFA’s minutes. 

Present for PSCFA:  Jennifer Brahier, Paige Anderson, Tom Wazlavek, Keith Prendergast, Carla Williams, Blaine Wall

Present for PSC:  Rob Larkin, Keith Samuels, Margaret Libby, Ed Stout

Visitors:  Jo Spencer

1.       Jo Spencer has been working behind the scenes to address forms at the back of the CBA.  She shared Appendix Q. A heading or a set of instructions has been merged into the appendix. 

2.       Rob Larkin provided a state of bargaining: 

a.       Tentative Agreements (TA’s) have been reached for Articles 1-4 and 13.

b.      Articles 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 are still out

c.       Article 15 in state of flux with budget.  Jennifer asked why salaries are not a priority when budgeting.  No satisfactory answer was given.

3.       Article 5:  Administration is not interested in waiving the time period required to request a place on the agenda.  PSCFA has asked that the time period be waived if the BOT agenda is published later than 10 business days before a BOT meeting—the required time to request a place on the agendaKeith Samuels:  Why fix it if there have only been two problems?

4.       Article 6: PSCFA argued that seniority should be based on rank and years in rank

5.       Article 7:  PSCFA maintains that Board rights should not include the word college

6.       Article 9 response being developed.  The administration’s response to Article 9 and OPA will be presented with any financial offer that is made for Article 15. 

7.       Article 10:   TA’ed:   Extended time to file with arbitrator to 30 days.  Agreed that both sides may mutually agree to an arbitrator that is not listed. 

8.       Article 11 issues:  PSCFA argued that the proposed feedback timeline for evaluation is too long.  We disagreed with new language denying a faculty member’s input on a second evaluator.  We fought against disciplinary action being taken against a faculty member based on anonymous student evaluations

9.       Jennifer presented copies of Article 17.  Tom Wazlavek addressed disciplinary action in 17.

10.   TA’ed Article 13.

The next bargaining session will be held Tuesday, May 8 at 9:00 in the Atwell Room.  If you have any questions about this bargaining session, please contact Jennifer Brahier.