Below please find an article-by-article summary of the changes to the librarian contract negotiated in successor bargaining for the Unit 17 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). A ratification vote will be held at all campuses during the week of March 31-April 4. There will also be a mail ballot option for those unable to vote on their campuses. Only union MEMBERS have the right to vote.
Click here to read the summary.
To review the texts of the tentatively agreed on articles, click on the links below:
Revised Articles
To find out what your raises will be in the next 3 years, lecturers should look up your annual FTE (full-time equivalent) salary, and count the number of semesters you have been teaching on campus. Then refer to the "2007 Lecturers' Contract Improvements" located here. (Links to the full texts of the new articles are at the bottom of the summary page).
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1) New Salary Floor: October 1, 2007 (effective with November paycheck) Starting: Just under $42,100 Post-Six: Just under $46,500
2) Guaranteed Salary Increases: We are guaranteed three percent increases in each of the next three years. This October, the Senate faculty is slated to get a general range adjustment of 2.5%, so we will do better than the Senate in this regard. In October 2008 and October 2009, if Senate Faculty members receive more than 3%, we will get whatever they get, but if they get less than that, we will still get 3%.
3) New Salary Scale:The old salary scale is rather arbitrary. The difference between steps ranges between 1.4% and 2.8%. Therefore, most merit increases were much lower than 5%. Each step on the new scale will now reflect a 2.5% increase above the previous step.
4) Significant pay increases targeted to those who have taught the longest and to those who have the lowest salaries: In July 2008 and July 2009, two rounds of one-time salary adjustments will be implemented, according to the following rules.
Download the lecturer's salary chart here.
· Guaranteed 3% salary increase for each of the next three years, which is more than Senate faculty are guaranteed.
· Substantial salary increases for long-term lecturers, those with more than ten years of UC service. Some will be getting over 25% to resolve salary compression. This is in addition to any merit increases that will be awarded during the period.
· Average total salary increase over the next three years for continuing appointments will be just over 16-17%. Any merits received will increase this amount by at least 5%.
· A new minimum for all lecturers, effective in October 2007, of over 42,000.
· Increase of minimum merits to 5%, from 3.8%.
· Commitment to address the social security problem for lecturers with less than 50% appointments.
· A new course load maximum of 8 courses for lecturers who teach writing and foreign languages on the quarter campuses.
· Elimination of "second section discounts"
· New processes for reducing workload and giving credit for the work lecturers do outside of the classroom
· A new system-wide grievance process for workload disputes.