Quarterly General Membership Meeting Cal Poly SLO October 25, 2014

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1 Quarterly General Membership Meeting Cal Poly SLO October 25, 2014 I. Roll Call of Executive Board members: Officers Carl Kimberlin Business Manager Ken Sanchez President Linda Chang CFO/Webmaster Chris Sprofera Vice President Gary Kestel Recorder UC Board Members Brian Maloney UC Irvine William Heaps UC San Diego Arnold Aguilar UC LA Tracy Hanamoto UCLA Wayne Downing UC Merced CSU Board Members Joe Mendoza CSU Fresno Dave Hagstrom CSU San Francisco James Boothe CSU San Bernardino Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present II. Welcome and Introductions: Ken Sanchez, BSE, 13yrs, CSU Fullerton, President Carl Kimberlin, Carpenter, 15yrs, CSU LA, Business Manager Gary Kestel, BSE 14yrs, CSU San Jose, Recorder Chris Sprofera, Electrician, 10yrs, CSU San Diego, Vice President Brian Maloney, Electrician, 8yrs, UC Irvine Wayne Downing, Electrician, 8yrs, UC Merced pg 1

2 Arnold Aguilar, Facilities Mechanic, 6yrs, UC LA James Boothe, Maintenance Mechanic, 22yrs, CSU SB Dave Hagstrom, Supervising Plumber, 14yrs, CSU SF Harry Heaps, Lead Plumber, 23yrs, UC SD Tracy Hanamoto, Sheet Metal Worker, 13yrs, UCLA Gary Comer, Retired, Sign Maker, 29.5yrs, UCLA, Consultant Joseph Mendoza, Supervising Locksmith, 39yrs, CSU Fresno Linda Chang, Electrician, 26yrs, CSU Fullerton, CFO/Webmaster Mike McDaniel, BSE, 6yrs, CSU SLO Stephen Bencivengo, Auto Mechanic, 7.5yrs, CSU SLO III. Approval of Minutes for , CSU San Bernardino: Four minor corrections were made and changed before acceptance. Motion #1 Motion was made to accept minutes from meeting at CSU San Bernardino by Joe Mendoza, CSU Fresno. Motion Seconded by Joe Bischel, CSU SLO Yes: 16 No: None Abstained: 1 Motion Carried IV. Approval of Quarterly Financial Report: 3 rd Quarter Report, 2014, from CSU San Bernardino, Ken S asks if any non- members are present. Non- member is explained. No non- members present. Linda C goes over groups and the line items in them. A question about the travel allowances and expenses came up. Linda explains the categories for meetings at different campuses and the way that Quick Books categorizes it all. Motion #2 Motion was made to accept the Third Quarter, 2014, Financial Report by Chris Sprofera, CSU San Diego. Motion seconded by Brian Maloney, UC Irvine. Yes: 13 No: 1 Abstained: None Motion Carried Linda C reiterates the benefits of the new banking system over the old account. pg 2

3 V. Report of Officers: James Boothe, CSU San Bernardino: The JATC is grouping Apprenticeship Training into one entity. James explains the steps and trainer inter connect with the program and goes over the transition from John Skiels to James B leading the program for SETC. Carl K goes over methods to show campuses the cost savings in the Apprenticeship Program. Discussion was had on the Apprenticeship Program and the benefits to all. James adds that the SETC Scholarship Program is coming along. Dave Hagstrom, CSU San Francisco: There is one active ongoing grievance on Daves campus regarding providing Hazardous Materials Procedures due to possible incidents and incidents on campus in the past year. Campus is working with Dave to get procedures in place. Dave has been working with campus regarding the Apprenticeship Programs. His campus has had ten Apprentices graduate from the program. He is active with the Labor Council that meets with other Unions on his campus, which keeps him in the loop of overall goings on. Dave goes over some cost savings that have been implemented during the first year of this new SETC E Board. He mentions the 3% raise that has been implemented for the last year of our current contract and the upcoming contract negotiations and tells of the E Boards involvement in this. Harry Heaps, UC San Diego: There is an issue with an Electrician being fired on the spot for being in an elevator room by a state inspector and a supervisor. There has been an arbitration meeting on this 27yr employee with past issues brought up that are irrelevant and a second arbitration is coming up in November. Stay out of elevator rooms. An employee hit a fire hydrant with state vehicle causing flooding. It took 4.5 months for management to come up with a 5- day suspension with no reason for the delay. There is an ongoing issue in housing over management s handbook, which is contrary to the SETC contract in half of the instances. Harry brings up the 5 UC hospitals on his campus and issues involving facilities in them regarding Ebola. There has been no training or procedures established as of yet. Light discussion was had on article 28, asking for reassignment due to safety concerns. The UC SD contract is up in a year and Harry is requesting sun shining now due to the series of events that went on for the last negotiations. Harry has new stewards on campus and is looking to get some training for them soon. pg 3

4 Arnold Aguilar, UCLA: He has started bargaining on his campus. Management has stalled on getting negotiations going for the past few contracts. The last contract was over on October of 2013 and Arnold hopes to have things wrapped up in A lot of language changes are being negotiated. 501 is showing up and meeting members on campus. There is a 2yr old grievance regarding overtime pay for short staff levels with members being asked to work extra shifts. There are concerns over Ebola procedures and policies at the hospitals on his campus also. There is a group putting together and distributing information to management. SETC is asking to be involved. Discussion was had on the consolidation of contracts under the UC and CSU systems and ways this had been attempted in the past. Reasons for it not happening as of yet were discussed, as were future moves toward this goal. The cost savings was brought up along with the less confusion over similar issues. Wayne Downing, UC Merced: Wayne knows of no active grievances on his campus. Contract negotiations are going on as the current one expires this year. He is just about to sunshine and have meetings scheduled through December. Management is looking to have 20 new buildings going up over 20 years. Discussion was had on the ways to keep this maintenance work in house and force management to hire more employees instead of contracting out. Brian Maloney, UC Irvine: Brian has a grievance at the medical center over sick leave usage. Management came up with their own policy that was not meet and conferred on. Harry H gave an example of a similar arbitration that was won at UCSD campus. Discussion was had on similar handbook policies at different campuses. An employee was fired at the medical center over a lockout/tagout issue. The employee was off work for 18 months and has been awarded his job back with back pay. 501 has been pushing and getting onto his campus as it looks like they are losing UCSB. Contract negotiations are ongoing with 29 out of 49 articles ta d. The bigger articles are upcoming as of yet. A local Community College has contacted Brian about a possible Apprentice type program involving a Smart Building Technician. Brian reiterated the importance of having a union representative or other accountable witness with you in any meeting that could involve reprimands. pg 4

5 Chris Sprofera, CSU San Diego: Chris is working on the backlog of grievances and will be contacting various stewards and members for these. 501 has started making appearances on CSU campuses. His campus is renting all of the roof space they can find for cellular towers and other equipment. Negotiations are upcoming for the CSU contract ending next summer. Chris wants all departments to come up with deferred maintenance numbers. He wants to be able to show the Chancellors Office the real numbers. He tells of his campus not replacing retiring workers and letting deferred maintenance go until they call it an emergency. At that point they contract our work out. Chris also reminds everyone to keep records of shabby work to show management the poor work for their dollars when contracting out. He reiterates using certified payroll information for showing prevailing wages on any contracted out projects. Discussion was had on deferred maintenance, JOC, low staffing levels, and management telling us there is no money to hire more staff. Temporary help was also gone over as a way to get work done while also finding competent future employees. Carl K gave examples of too much work for their low staff levels and methods to keep work in house, encouraging no work going out. He also reiterates that poor management and poor planning are not excuses to contract out, per executive orders. More discussion was had on staffing levels. Chris gave an example of not pming on air handling equipment servicing contagious hospital patients and the dangers of the situations like that. Paul Fahy, FW2, Chris Martino, BSE, and Carey Jackson, Lead Carpenter were introduced. More discussion on staffing levels versus workloads and ways to show management realistic numbers on deferred maintenance. Gary Kestel, CSU San Jose: We currently have 2 SPB hearings coming up in April involving the old culture and customs of taking state property home for personal use. Do not do this. Gary had housing convinced to not use Facility Worker 2s for callbacks due to safety concerns and the fact that there is no supervision after hours. This worked fine until housing found out that the campus was using FW2s for callbacks. Now he must press the issue with them, also. Housing at SJSU has always been a separate auxiliary from the campus group, but due to the Director of Housing leaving and no Assistant Facilities Director position, we believe campus is going to move on us at the beginning of the New Year. He went over incidents in housing and on campus that are costing taxpayers a lot of tax money. pg 5

6 Discussion was had on the FW2 callback issues. Joe Mendoza, CSU Fresno: Joe is getting a new Chief Steward on his campus. He filed a grievance over a 25.5 year Lead Mechanic putting in for a Supervising position and management giving it to a just off probation new bee. Joe goes over the background of the issue and tells why it is discriminatory and is a civil issue with SETC attorneys advising him on it. Joe has little contracting out on his campus and no JOCs. He goes over the ways his group has worked with management with contracting out and how he was able to show them the money saved by doing things in house. Lunch, 11:51: Return, 12:54: Ken Sanchez, CSU Fullerton, President: Ken is on the CSU contract negotiating team. The 3% raise for the last year of the current contract is in effect and will be appearing soon. Sun shining the overall upcoming contract talks will start in January, with negotiations starting in February. As Chairman for the JATC he says that the side letter agreement on the Non Paid Work Experience for the Troops for Trades program is just a few words away from being signed. He went over the requirements of the program. There is an upcoming Apprentice graduation in December in Long Beach. The classifications and standards are nearly completed for the JATC program at UC Merced. There are more meetings scheduled with the LEA from Irvine Community College regarding the Smart Buildings and Smart Classrooms Apprenticeship program through the JATC. Ken settled a grievance for a member at Northridge. There has been progress in the due diligence to contact all affected members in the Global Grievance. The grievance has been settled, but we need to make sure all efforts are made to contact the members affected by the layoffs. Ken settled 3 grievances at his campus at level 1. These were over issues stemming from work done by other non- managerial departments on campus. He is the interim Steward at CSU Long Beach and settled all of the outstanding grievances regarding the usage of CTO hours by calling the day of usage and some issues on wearing shorts to work. There is a very poor relationship with management in the housing department at Long Beach and this is being addressed. Ken met with a facility member and H R on the SLO campus over salary inequity issues. A small discussion on the wearing of shorts at work was had. pg 6

7 Carl Kimberlin, CSULA, Business Manager: Carl goes over the procedures used in negotiating the 3% raise for the last year of the current contract including parking fees. A small discussion was had on parking fees including the recent raising of them at SLO. Carl went over some of the strategies and plans for the upcoming contract negotiations. He goes over ways and means to get the current pay issues realized by the Board of Trustees and Sacramento. Tim O Meara started discussion on the issues with the previous Boards in dealing with problems on the SLO campus. Carl goes over the availability of the board to all members and what he s been doing at the Chancellors Office. He explains some of the medical benefit and travel allowance issues. Discussion was had on travel allowance due to the rural location of SLO. Discussion was had on keeping the members informed on the contract negotiations and how to inform the negotiation committee of any language changes needed. Carl brought up the recent issues in the system regarding racial discrimination and the taking home of state property. He urges all to remember that things are different these days in the way of fireable offences. He also brings up the need for training of board members to be better prepared for dealing with these newer issues. Dave H goes over the CSU SJ SPB cases and assures the members of the competence of the SETC lawyers and staff. He stresses the importance of not taking any state property off of the campus. Discussion was had on taking state property and other fireable offences going on in the system including cameras in various places around the campuses. A small discussion was had on Article regarding overtime via phone. Joe Bishel starts discussion on dealing with emergency overtime where members are sent home and charged vacation time for this time off after working continuous overtime hours. VI. Report of Delegates: None present. VII. Report of Consultants: Gary Comer, Consultant: Gary goes over the non- member drive during contract negotiations at UCLA. A settlement was made in a grievance against a member at UC Irvine for talking too much. This member was given pay for his one year off and was allowed to retire on a date agreed to in the settlement. He is in ongoing negotiations in a grievance over the use of sick time for a member who was fired for reasons contrary to the contract. pg 7

8 Gary participated in the negotiations at UC Merced and has been comparing contracts with UCLA. He went over the issues of being able to get some ground rules in for the purpose of release time while negotiating the upcoming contract, as they did at Merced. The sunshine should happen next week. Gary suggests sunshining hazard pay for various situations and gives examples. He goes over a couple of other articles and how they are interpreted and suggests that everyone read their corresponding contract and highlighting the articles that need addressed. He gives the me too clause as an example and that it will be negotiated into the Merced contract. Discussion was had on the ways to get raises via the contract, language in the UC contract for guaranteed raises, and adding similar language to the CSU contract. More discussion on pay raises, what has worked, and what has not worked. Gary goes over the UC Merced 20/20 program. Similarities of this program of outside entities building on campus and leasing the buildings back to the state are at Merced and UCLA. He warns of the legal ramifications of this with SETC and the taxpayers. In negotiations there are 39 ta d changes with 5 involving appendixes, and some of these being put in to effect now and not waiting for the new contract. Gary tells of the ULPs filed regarding 18 grievances over reprisals against Stewards doing their duties. Settlement talks are ongoing with Labor Relations over 22 more grievances at UCLA. Gary is encouraging UC Merced and Irvine to go with the DRC versus a Skelly Hearing which has a much better setup and faster resolution. Discussion was had on Skelly Hearings, PERBs, and DRCs. VIII, Report of Campus Stewards: No new reports. Discussion was had on the steps for getting a raise in the CSU system. Ken S reiterates of the plans for upcoming negotiations. Tim O starts a long discussion on performance evaluations, PSIs, work order tracking, and job assignments. IX. None Old Business: X. New Business: None. XI. Good of the Union: James B suggests that SLO and all other campuses write down contract issues to bring up for negotiations. pg 8

9 Dave H goes over upcoming pay raise negotiations. Harry Heaps adds that communication throughout the Union is essential, especially during negotiations. Joe B notices a difference on the website and a discussion on why to be a member was started. Tim O appreciated the visit to the Plumbing Shop, appreciates the new direction of the Board, and discussion was had on the reasons for doing this. Joe M agrees that the visit to SLO by the board members was a good idea and that the new direction is a good thing. pg 9 Meeting Adjourned: 3:11 pm Gary Kestel SETC- United Recorder