Update on Research Active Workload Policies
by Don Wedding, Grievance Chair
The AAUP has filed a grievance for three colleges, Business, Engineering, and HSHS, and a global grievance for the entire campus. We are waiting for the policies to be issued by the other colleges. We have been told that the A&S team working on the policy were not permitted to consider the policies published in other colleges. We will be moving forward this week with outside arbitration on the global grievance.
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Grievance Filed
Dental and Vision Benefits
by Don Wedding, Grievance Chair
A class-action grievance has been filed on behalf of both units because the Administration has unilaterally changed dental benefits. The grievance reads as follows:
Under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement ratified in late 2008, the Delta Dental benefits were to remain the same. Under the URL for dental benefits (see http://www.utoledo.edu/depts/hr/main/benefits/dental.html and click on the link called "schedule of benefits")the second page reads, "If you and your spouse are both eligible under this contract, you may be enrolled as both a subscriber on your own application card and as a dependent on your spouse's application card. Your dependent children may be enrolled on both application cards as well. Delta Dental will coordinate benefits. The Contractor pays the full cost of this plan." This policy has been unilaterally changed without notice by the Administration such that a spouse may no longer be a dependent on the other spouse's application card. Also dependent children can only be listed on one application, not both.
When the UT Benefits Office was asked about the existing policy before the change, the Benefits Office advised that there had never been such a policy. When given a hard copy of the above URL, the Benefits Office replied that this had been the policy, but as of 2009 it is no longer the policy.
The UT Administration does not have the authority to make a unilateral and stealth change in health benefits agreed to by both the Administration and UT-AAUP and ratified by the bargaining units. Faculty are requested to alert the AAUP of any other changes in health benefits that they become aware of.
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UT-AAUP Receives Clean Audit
Elaine I. Miller, UT-AAUP Treasurer reports that the UT-AAUP has received a clean audit for the fiscal year ending August 2008. She reports that our record keeping and financial policies received high marks from the auditing firm. In addition to the clean audit, UT-AAUP has again kept non-chargeable expenditures (those monies spent on activities or issues not germane to collective bargaining, such as recruitment) to a minimum at roughly 6% locally. This is one of the lowest rates in the state and is an excellent indicator of the organization's financial health.
Copies of all UT-AAUP audits are on file in the Carlson Library 5th floor Archives. |
