PROFESSIONAL STAFF UNION Building Meetings November & December, 2017 Agenda Janus vs. AFSCME Bargaining Update Layoffs & Workloads

Janus vs. AFSCME: Do public sector workers need unions?

CONTRACT BARGAINING UPDATE UNION PROPOSALS MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS Internal hiring & career ladders Eliminate vacation roll- over Investigations into toxic work environments & discrimination Separately bargain increase to parking fees Lower COLAs than the Baker Administration is offering state employees Workloads & comp time Layoff language Tuition and CAPS benefit Fair COLA increases

Salary Proposals Union salary proposal Baker’s parameters UMass proposal YEAR 1 (2017-18) 2.5+0.5% COLA July 2017 $1000 to base 0.5% COLA July 2017 0.5% COLA Jan 2018 * Additional 1% COLA July 2017 if hit tax target 1% COLA Jan 2018 YEAR 2 (2018-19) 2.5+0.5% COLA July 2018 1% COLA July 2018 1% COLA Jan 2019 2% COLA Jan 2019 * Additional 1% COLA in fall 2018 if hit tax target YR 3 (19-20) 2.5+0.5% COLA July 2019 1% COLA July 2019 1% COLA Jan 2020 2% COLA Jan 2020

Raise Delayed = Money Lost Average annual rate for full-time employee in PSU $71,000.00   Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Effective Date 07/01/17 01/01/18 07/01/18 01/01/19 07/01/19 01/01/20 Union Proposal 3.00% 0.00% Annual Rate $73,100.00 $75,293.00 $77,551.79 Earnings $36,550.00 $110,746.50 $148,393.00 $187,168.90 $225,944.79 For Comparison 1.00% 2.00% $71,700.00 $73,134.00 $74,596.68 $35,850.00 $108,267.00 $144,834.00 $182,132.34 $219,430.68 Baker's Parameters 0.50% $71,350.00 $71,706.75 $72,423.82 $73,148.06 $73,879.54 $74,618.33 $35,675.00 $71,528.38 $107,740.28 $144,314.31 $181,254.08 $218,563.25 Difference in Annual Rate $21.65 Difference in Earnings -$867.43 Add'l Years to Recuperate 40 UMass Proposal $71,710.00 $73,144.20 $74,607.08 $35,500.00 $71,355.00 $107,210.00 $143,782.10 $180,354.20 $217,657.74 $10.40 -$1,772.94 170

STAFF LAYOFFS: What we know Phase 1: ELC closure and layoff of 8 PSU members Phase 2: PSU: 13 layoffs plus 7 “restructured” positions; effective mid-February CSU: 13 layoffs Non-unit staff: 10 layoffs Future phases: Centers & Institutes, Marketing, Admin & Finance

Layoff Procedures Consultation meeting to determine what is happening to the work, and to the workload of co-workers Investigations into any potential out-sourcing of bargaining unit work Protecting laid off members’ bumping rights

One Person—One Job What does “one person—one job” mean to you? How will you protect yourself from being assigned more work? How will you help protect your co-workers from taking on more work?

UMB BUDGET FIGHT: Next steps We’ve asked for but not received information from UMB administration about upper-level cuts, consultants and CC/03s Demand that the BOT release $5M to eliminate need for all layoffs this year. Did you come to the action on 11/29? Did you email or call Pres. Meehan & Chairman Manning? Legislative strategy to shift some of UMB’s debt for the substructure to the state