Transcript Bargaining Proposals

Presentation to the General Membership
April 23, 2013
Agenda for Today’s Meeting
Summary of the Process
2. Provincial Template Table Package
3. Local Package
4. Voting Process
1.
Process:
 Bargaining preparation for this round began over a
year ago.
 Bargaining team met locally with the employer in
December, January, February, March, and April.
 Provincial Template Table met the last week of
January.
Categories of Proposals
 Fair and Reasonable Salary Increase
 Improvements for Non-Regular Faculty
 Benefit Improvements
 Pension Improvements
 Improvements to Job Security
 Resources to deal with Local Cost Issues (i.e. Workload
issues)
Provincial Template Table
 Term of the Agreement
 Article 2 Harassment
 BC Provincial PharmaCare Formulary
 Expedited Arbitration
 Common Faculty Professional Development Fund
 Respectful Working Environment
 Salaries
 Non-Regular Research Project
 Housekeeping
Term of the Agreement
 April 1, 2012 – March 31, 2014
Article 2 Harassment
Article 2.1 Statement of Commitment
 The final paragraph of the Article speaks to the
employer offering education and training programs.
This sentence was added:
 The Unions and Employers agree that attendance is
required and will take place during compensated work
time.
BC Provincial PharmaCare Formulary
 While not to be included in the local parties’ collective
agreements, FPSE and PSEA agree to continue
discussions and investigation of the BC Provincial
PharmaCare Formulary.
Expedited Arbitration
Letter of Understanding
After exhausting the steps of the grievance procedure, either party may
notify the other of its desire to use expedited arbitration.
The following are excluded:
 Dismissals
 Suspensions in excess of 5 days
 grievances requiring
 substantial interpretation of the agreement
 presentation of extrinsic evidence
 where a local party intends to raise a preliminary objection
 arising from duty to accommodate
 interpretation of the Common Agreement unless mutually agreed
Expedited Arbitration (2)
 A list of six arbitrators
 Lawyers not to be retained
 Agreed Statement of Facts
 Written submissions no more than 10 pages
 Arbitrator may assist in mediating a resolution
 Decision to be completed within 3 days
 All decisions are without prejudice and have no
precedential value
 Decision is binding and conclusive
Common Faculty PD Plan
 16.3.2 Any monies in the Fund not spent at the end of
any fiscal year shall be retained by the employer.
Respectful Working Environment
 Letter of Understanding
 Jointly develop and offer mandatory educational and
training programs at each institution, designed to:
 Enhance understanding of interpersonal conflict,
bullying, and the effects thereof.
 Ensure all members are aware of resources and
responsibilities
 Actively promote a respectful working environment
Salaries
 January 1, 2013
 April 1, 2013
 September 1, 2013
1 percent
1 percent
1 percent
(or ratification if later)
 January 1, 2014
1 percent
 All secondary scales and stipends will be increased at
the above rates
Sectoral Non-Regular Research Project
 PSEA agrees to assist FPSE in the collection of data
from the HRDB and PSEA member institutions
regarding non-regular faculty.
CORFA Local Agreement
PSEA imposed several “mandates” for local bargaining
including:
 No decrease to faculty workload;
 No limits on student numbers;
 No decrease to any Management rights;
 Anything with a cost had to be “paid for” by giving up
some other existing local agreement benefit.
CORFA Local Agreement
 Article 5 Working Conditions
 5.2.1.1 – 206 duty days changed to 205 (because of the new stat
holiday)
 5.2.2.5 – A regular employee will normally be provided with 12
consecutive hours off duty following an evening teaching
assignment (new)
 5.6.1.2 – This article talks about which University
Studies/Career Tech contact hours are discounted. It still
includes labs, practicums, workshops and field activities.
Added clinical practice and studios. Deleted intro phrase
ending with 1994.
 5.62.1 – Previously just stated maximum US/CT hours are
480. Added Normal assigned contact hours in University
Studies is 450.
CORFA Local Agreement
 Article 5 Working Conditions cont.
 5.6.2.2 – Assigned contact hours greater than 450 is
overload
 5.6.4 – Preparation Hours of Work - Just a title change –
added the words: for University Studies and/or Career
Technology Courses
 5.6.4.1 –Preparation hours per Week
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a) added to a weekly maximum of 15 contact hours as per
5.6.3.1
 b) added the 4 x4 language
 5.6.4.2 – New language - added calculation of part-time
work
CORFA Local Agreement
 Article 5 Working Conditions cont.
5.7.1 – changed duty period to 37 weeks including statutory
holidays
This was a long discussion. Here’s the math:
261 potential work days in a year. 44 of these are vacation
20 of these are PD. 10 of these are NI. 12 are stat holidays.
Maximum of 175 work days = 35 weeks. But, the period of
the work days may stretch out as long as 37 weeks because
stat holidays, PD and/or NI days may be part of this
period.
CORFA Local Agreement
 Article 5 Working Conditions cont.
 5.7.3 – The restriction of a maximum of 18 lecture hours
per week in Vocational workloads was clarified to only
apply to Access Education Instructors.
 New 5.8 – moved language from 7.2.2.1 and 7.2.2.2
regarding hours for auxiliary vocational instructors
CORFA Local Agreement
What we didn’t get in Article 5:
 Any reductions in contact hours.
 Any caps on student numbers
 Any definitions
CORFA Local Agreement
Article 6 - Selection and Appointment – Housekeeping
changes
What we didn’t get in Article 6:
 Didn’t get to change accrual of work to our proposed
seniority and qualifications based system. Employer
would not agree to it.
CORFA Local Agreement
Article 7 Salaries and Premiums
 7.3.1 Increments - Housekeeping
 7.7 Instructor’s Diploma – moved from article 5.6
Salary Increments were dealt with a Template Table
We weren’t able to get rid cap on the auxiliary salary scale.
CORFA Local Agreement
Article 8 Reimbursable Expenses
 Article 8.1.2.1 Vehicle
 Edited paragraph to include rental vehicle and clarify
the College will pay all related expenses. Employees
must choose most economical transportation and have
travel preapproved
CORFA Local Agreement
Article 9 Employee Benefits
 No substantive changes to employee benefits
 Article 9.3 Statutory Holidays – added Family Day
 Article 9.7 Employee Benefits – Housekeeping change -
replaced Etc with Dismemberment
CORFA Local Agreement
Article 10 Employee Evaluation and Performance
Review
 No changes proposed by either side.
CORFA Local Agreement
 Article 11 Leaves of Absence
 Moved Article 6.5 Voluntary Workload Reduction to this
Article, to go with other Leaves. It is now Article 11.8
CORFA Local Agreement
Article 13 Employee Layoff and Recall and Technological
Change.
13.1.5 Housekeeping Functional Area List – removed
formerly names
What we weren’t able to get:
We were not able to eliminate functional areas and
implement our new proposed system of seniority and
qualifications.
CORFA Local Agreement
 Article 15 Personnel Files
 Article 15.1 added official file is maintained in Human
Resources
 Article 15.4.1 Disciplinary documentation to be removed
after 24 months if a similar incident has not taken place
 Article 17 Occupational Health and Safety –
housekeeping
CORFA Local Agreement
 Article 20 Discipline
 Article 20.5 deleted as it was repetition of 15.4.1
 Article 23 Professional Development – moved from
Article 5
 Article 24 Respectful Workplace Environment
 Moved from article 5.12
 Harassment changed to respectful workplace
environment
 Change SIO to VP-Education
CORFA Local Agreement
 Letters of Understanding – Renew
 Early Retirement Incentive Program
 Role of Contract Employees
 Evaluation and Performance Review Criteria
 Regular Sessional and Regular Sessional Part-time
Employees
 Department Heads Compensation
 Deferred Salary Leave Program
CORFA Local Agreement
 Letters of Understanding – Renew
 Courses Offered Through Institutes or Community
Development
 Interpretation of Article 5.2.2.1 vis-à-vis Article 6.6
 Flexible Configurations of Work
 Second Functional Areas
 Interpretation of Article 13
 Local Government Management Courses
CORFA Local Agreement
 Letters of Understanding – Deleted
 Joint Committee on Workload
 Application of Article 5.11 – Department Heads to
Current Incumbents
CORFA Local Agreement
 Letters of Agreement – Amended
 Distributed Learning
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Refer to Common Agreement Article 6.6 – Education
Technology/Distributed Learning
The parties agree that the contact hours per week for
delivering a course shall be the same regardless of whether it
is offered in distributed learning or lecture format.
The remainder of the LOU was deleted because Article 6.6
supersedes local agreement language.
CORFA Local Agreement
Letters of Understanding – amended
 Post Retirement Faculty – housekeeping
 Workload paragraph – second sentence
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If the workload is an instructional term assignment, the term
of employment will include non-instructional days…
 University Studies and Career Technical Preparation
Hours per Week
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Removed pilot from title and reference to 4 x 4 workload.
Kept the 5 by 4 language with all its restrictions.
CORFA Local Agreement
 Letters of Understanding – Amended
 Global Studies Graduate Certificate Program
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A general advertisement will be posted prior to each academic
year.
Mutual agreement for assignment deleted because of posting
process.
Student preference removed from faculty selection criteria.
Pilot term and review process deleted.
CORFA Local Agreement
 Letters of Understanding – Amended
 Workload for BBA Capstone stays at 1.5 contact hours per student per
credit.
 Removed reference to 2011-2012 academic year
 Removed hours for coordinator to ensure courses are ready
 Letter of Understanding – New
 Special Projects
 Faculty assigned to special projects instruction will be
assigned 4.5 contact hours per student in an individualized
3-credit course, pro-rata.
 The contact hours are not distinctly different lecture form
contact hours and are not considered prep hours as defined
under Article 5.6.4
Almost done!!
 Questions
Vote:
 The CORFA Bargaining Committee recommends
acceptance of the tentative Provincial Template Table
agreement and the tentative local agreement
 Ballots will be available following the meeting as well
as tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Cranbrook
campus. Campuses each have a volunteer voting
captain.