Information about the New MCPL-UNION Agreement.

A reminder that we will be voting on the new MCPL-Union agreement  this Wednesday 8/3 at 6:30. in meeting room 2B. 

We will also be discussing changes to the Local Constitution and the reasons we are reviewing it.  

Please keep in mind that the Agreement does not include the Personnel Policy Manual.  Because we have the Labor Management Committee  we can discuss these policies and review these policies along with Salaries and benefits at any time.  We have several areas we hope to address at a later time. In the meantime we have also excepted changes to the manual, that were punctuation corrections, font changes and wording that reflected the current service model. Things like pages are not information handlers.  We made sure that none of the changes resulted in a change in policy.

The majority of the changes in the agreement were simply adjusting language for the current service model and changing dates.    Besides these changes here are the major changes. 

1. The negotiation teams may now name one alternate to fill if a team member is unable to attend three or more negotiation meetings.  

2. We will have a little more flexibility in using Library Email.  While we will not be able receive emails from the staff, we will be able to contact all union eligible staff with information regarding meetings, officers and events, within the email instead of just directing you to the Union Blog or your personal emails. 

3. We managed to get language in that says that library would work as much as possible towards having more predictable work schedules for staff and providing a better work/life balance.

4. Any significant changes in staffing and classification/reclassification will go through the Labor Management Committee.  This gives us a chance to address and inquire about how these changes will affect staff and why they are taking place if we choose to do so.  

Thanks, 

Keith Carter