Contract Negotiations 2009

The chapter voted to approve the agreement at the 9/8/09 meeting in the SLH.

Our UCC-AAUP bargaining team reached an agreement with the administration team late Friday, 8/29. Click here for the contract summary in PDF file format (you need to have Adobe reader installed on your computer to open the file). Click here for the Webpage version of the contract summary . Note: The first PDF version is the "official" document. Some formatting doesn't translate perfectly to the webpage version.  

The changes to the contract were discussed at the meeting held Monday, August 31, 1 pm in the Main Lecture Hall. 

A meeting to vote on the contract will be held Tuesday, 9/8/09, 3:30 pm, South Lecture Hall of the Science Building. Absentee balloting will be available on Friday 9 - 4, and Tuesday 9 - 2 in the library of the Plainfield campus, the reference desk of the library in Cranford, and Room 414 in Elizabeth.  Elsa Bruguier, Bill Schryba and Pat Ishill have graciously agreed to assist with the absentee balloting and bringing the ballots to the meeting, at which they will be counted along with the in-person votes.

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A brief history of the UCC-AAUP chapter's activities in August:

Union President Bob Comeau announced that negotiations were proceeding after a very late start by the UCC administration’s team; the first meeting was held on June 30.  

A chapter meeting was held on Monday, August 17, at 1 pm in the Main Lecture Hall, for the purpose of being informed on, and discussion of, the ongoing bargaining process. Guest speaker, Prof. Ernst Benjamin, former General Secretary of AAUP and co-author of Academic Collective Bargaining, a collection of essays co-published by the AAUP and the MLA, gave an informative lecture/advice on the negotiation process. 

At the August 17 UCC-AAUP meeting the chapter passed the following resolution of support:  “The Members of the Union County College Chapter of AAUP strongly support their bargaining team in their work to achieve a fair agreement with respect to health care benefits and protection of the contractual relationship with the UCC administration that has worked well for the past 30 years.”

Another very well-attended information meeting/rally was held in the theater Wednesday, August 26 at 11 AM. 

A Rally/Picnic in Nomahegan Park was scheduled for 2:00 PM, Friday 8/28, but was cancelled due to concerns about predicted severe weather. 

Monday, August 31 at 1 pm, Main Lecture Hall - final meeting before our contract expires to discuss the agreement reached.