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

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

3. 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

4. Salary Proposals Union salary proposal Baker’s parameters
UMass proposal
YEAR 1 ( )
% 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 ( )
% 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)
% COLA July 2019
1% COLA July 2019
1% COLA Jan 2020
2% COLA Jan 2020

5. 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
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6. 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

7. 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

8. 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?

9. 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 or call Pres. Meehan & Chairman Manning?
Legislative strategy to shift some of UMB’s debt for the substructure to the state