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Know Your Rights - Winter Campus Closure

Submitted by jt14den on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 11:28am

What are my rights around the winter campus closure?

Campus Closure

December 25, 26, 31, and January 1 are paid holidays. If you want to be
off work for December 29- January 2, you can use vacation (even vacation
you have not yet accrued) or comp time to cover it, or you can take it as
leave-without-pay. This applies to part-timers, and probationary
employees, too.

Here is what the contract says:

A. Newly employed unit members would be allowed to use accrued vacation
even if the required six continuous months or quadri-weekly cycles on pay status Read more »

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Know Your Rights - Layoffs

Submitted by jt14den on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 7:43pm

>>Read the UC-CUE Contract Article on Layoffs

Q: How does the University decide whom to lay off? Read more »

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To clericals about the AFSCME strike July 14-18

Submitted by barbara on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 10:46am

from: Berkeley/UCOP CUE Local 3

AFSCME will be on strike July 14-18.

We urge all members to support the AFSCME workers during the strike by attending rallies during the
lunch hour or break, or before and after work. Their issues are similar to ours. A successful strike
by AFSCME would help all unionized employees at UC.

The regularly scheduled membership meeting for Thursday, July 17 will not be held. Instead, we hope to have a CUE
presence on the picket line at UCB at Gayley and Hearst at noon that day. Wear your CUE t-shirt.

Times and locations of all picket lines:

Berkeley:
Monday and Tuesday: Bancroft and Telegraph, 5AM - 7PM
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: Gayley & Hearst, 5AM - 7PM

UCOP:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 1111 Franklin 6AM - 7PM

Note: While CUE stands in solidarity with the AFSCME workers, during the time that the CUE contract with UC is in effect,
CUE's contract prohibits it from advocating that its members not go to work. Under our contract, CUE members who refuse
to cross picket lines may be subject to discipline. As with all clericals who ask for representation CUE will vigorously
defend anyone who is disciplined for honoring a picket line.

Please note that we are prohibited ONLY from striking, and NOT from showing our support for AFSCME workers by joining the
picket lines during our non-work hours. Read more »

Know Your Rights: Training and Development

Submitted by barbara on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 8:27pm

Did you know that you could get 24 hours per year of paid time off for training? That's right. Under the CUE-UC contract, all career employees with satisfactory evaluations are entitled to take off 24 hours in a calendar year for job related or University career related training.

Q: What is job or career-related training? Read more »

Performance Evaluations

Submitted by barbara on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 9:27pm

Know Your Rights About Performance Evaluations

Question: Is my supervisor required to complete a performance evaluation?

Answer: According to the current contract a probationary employee shall be evaluated in writing once during the probationary period. It is not required that the evaluation be at the end of the period, but it usually done then. After that, the contract says that each employee "shall be evaluated periodically." Read more »

Personnel Files

Submitted by barbara on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 9:25pm

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS about Personnel Files

Question: Can I see my personnel file?

Answer: Yes. You are entitled to view your personnel file and receive a complete copy of it free of charge.

Question: How do I do that? Read more »

Basic Employee Rights at UC

Submitted by barbara on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 9:24pm

Do you know your Rights under Weingarten and Skelly? What are Due Process and Progressive Discipline? Read more »

Union Activites

Submitted by barbara on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 9:23pm

Know Your Rights About Union Activities

Question: Is it all right to talk about union activities while I'm at work?

Answer: Yes. You can talk about union activities at work to the same extent that you can talk about other topics- such as movies, the weather, or sports. Discussions of union activities cannot be disruptive of the work environment. Your supervisors cannot restrict discussion of union activities more than they restrict other kinds of conversation.

Question: Can I pass out CUE literature at work? Read more »

Training and Development

Submitted by barbara on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 9:22pm

Know Your Rights: Training and Development

Did you know that you could get 24 hours per year of paid time off for training?

That's right. Under the CUE-UC contract, all career employees with satisfactory evaluations are entitled to take off 24 hours in a calendar year for job related or University career related training.

Q: What is job or career-related training? Read more »

Ergonomics

Submitted by barbara on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 9:18pm

Know Your Rights: Ergonomics @ Work

Did you know CUE is a resource for you if you should find yourself experiencing pain?

Q: When can I get an Ergonomic Evaluation?
A: Within the first 90 calendar days of employment on the job or workstation reassignment for new or reassigned employees who work more than 60% at a video display terminal. See CUE Contract Article 8 (B.5): Health & Safety. www.cueunion.org
Q: Need a computer workstation evaluation?
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