Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

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Present – Prince Charles Alexander, Dennis Cecere, Beth Denisch, Marti Epstein, Rich Grudzinski, Danny Harrington, Teodros Kiros, Jeff Perry, Wendy Rolfe, Jackson Schultz, David Scott and Jeri Sykes.

  1. Danny made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Rich seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
  2. Sr.VP/AA has responded to the information request. We will meet with the faculty that have designed the courses for the Master’s Program. Next week will be our normal Union/Management meeting, the following week we will meet with the course authors, and then the bargain will begin. Our target date to start will be Nov. 20 during the 1-2 hour when our normal UEC meeting is.
  3. Jeff presented the budget that was prepared by the Budget Committee to the UEC. We discussed the budget and the possibility of hiring a social media guru. We will get several people to present their ideas and possible cost. The idea is to get a plan to reach the masses as we head into the next bargain (2016). We discussed the possibility of additional fees for projects and extra work that UEC members are involved with; as we negotiate for 600+ faculty the workload is getting larger. The reason we got into this in the first place is for the greater good, we should not lose sight of that, not for the money. We will table this discussion and the budget as we go forward.

Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

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Present – Michael Abraham, Prince Charles Alexander, Dennis Cecere, Peggy Codding, Peter Cokkinias, Beth Denisch, Marti Epstein, Rich Grudzinski, Jonathan Holland, Teodros Kiros, Jeff Perry, Wendy Rolfe, Jackson Schultz, Will Silvio, Jeri Sykes, guest: Susan Rogers.

  1. Marti made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Rich seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
  2. Jackson met with Larry last Friday for an hour. They discussed many topics including the upcoming bargain over the Master’s Program on the Boston campus and a new Title IX policy.
  3. We discussed the upcoming bargain over the Master’s Program on the Boston campus at length.

Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

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Present – Michael Abraham, Prince Charles Alexander, Dennis Cecere, Peter Cokkinias, Beth Denisch, Marti Epstein, Danny Harrington, Jonathan Holland, Teodros Kiros, Jeff Perry, Wendy Rolfe, Jackson Schultz, David Scott, Will Silvio and Jeri Sykes. 

  1. Danny made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Peter seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.
  2. We discussed the information request regarding the Master’s Program and discussed the upcoming bargain of the on-campus Master’s Program.
  3. Students with disabilities were discussed and the extra work presented to faculty without compensation. Let’s get the conversation going; this is a serious issue. If we accept these students we have to have a plan to educate them. 
  4. Jackson and Mike Scott have been contacted to participate in a panel discussion on collective bargaining and jazz educators and there is a conference in NYC on the study of collective bargaining in higher education in the spring. We will look into both and discuss further next week.
  5. We discussed the SEIC plan to organize the part-time faculty at BU and another conference regarding part-time faculty organizing as a Union and contracts. Wendy will be our representative at any conferences regarding part-time faculty.
  6. The topic of weighted ensembles was discussed. Currently, there is no compensation for extra work and charts that need to be prepared.