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Campus Vote Set for December 2nd and 3rd

The USofCC bargaining committee has scheduled a vote to determine if our members want to accept the College administration’s last wage offer. The administration’s offer for the 2010-11 wage increase is as follows:

•    A 1% across the board increase.
•    A 1% guaranteed one-time bonus.

The across the board increase is effective retroactively to September 1, 2010.  For full-time staff, the bonus will be 1% of employee’s annual base salary. For part-time staff, the 1% bonus will be applied to hours worked in all positions inside of the bargaining unit between September 1, 2009 and August 31, 2010. (This was an improvement over the original proposal to pay the bonus based on the employee’s regularly assigned hours.) Part-timers who would have earned a bonus less than $25.00, will receive a minimum bonus payment of $25.00.

Management stated that, due to the size and complexity of the bargaining unit, the bonus and retroactive pay could not be provided to employees until January 15, 2010. Management indicated that employees will receive three separate checks at that time—the regular payroll check, the retroactive pay, and the bonus payment.

The bargaining committee felt that the administration’s final offer was better than what the administration intended to give, even though it fell short of what the staff deserves. After first proposing no wage increase, the administration eventually proposed a 1% increase with a non-guaranteed ½% bonus, and then finally agreed to guarantee and increase the amount of the bonus. …read more…