From Lois.M.Harrup at state.or.us Tue Feb 24 10:25:18 2009 From: Lois.M.Harrup at state.or.us (HARRUP Lois M * DAS HRSD) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:25:18 -0800 Subject: [OPEUreppms] Communication During Bargaining Message-ID: <8A8CF693A3BB294DB354A999D49CF818060F3730@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> This note is sent on behalf of Eva Corbin. We have received examples of several communications from SEIU representatives to employees. The SEIU representatives are trying to organize employee delegates to meet with the highest level managers in their work sites to tell them what they think of (the state's) proposal and asking management to relay employee thoughts to their Director or agency heads. This effort may occur on site with management or by telephone during the noon hours today. We are asking you to alert executive and management staff to anticipate being contacted by employees. Please advise them to refrain from discussing bargaining positions with agency employees. You may consider amending and re-sending an earlier communication that we asked you last fall to send to executive and management employees. For your use, we have attached the draft memo we sent you last fall. Thank you for your assistance in this regard. Eva Corbin Deputy Administrator, Labor Relations DAS Labor Relations Unit - 503-378-3141 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Communications and Informaiton Request Pre-During Bargaining2007-09 FINAL 1-29-07.doc Type: application/msword Size: 34816 bytes Desc: Communications and Informaiton Request Pre-DuringBargaining 2007-09 FINAL 1-29-07.doc URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT11217367.txt URL: From Lois.M.Harrup at state.or.us Thu Feb 26 13:14:14 2009 From: Lois.M.Harrup at state.or.us (HARRUP Lois M * DAS HRSD) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:14:14 -0800 Subject: [OPEUreppms] SEIU Update #2 Message-ID: <8A8CF693A3BB294DB354A999D49CF818060F3B46@exchnode01.ad.state.or.us> TO: HR Directors and Agency Executive and Management Service Employees You may or may not have read the newspaper about State bargaining. The coverage has centered on the State's budget and on our bargaining efforts with SEIU. The SEIU and State will continue to bargain over the terms and conditions of the 2009-2011 CBA that includes discussing pay freezes, furlough days and other language issues. Coalition Teams are meeting or will soon meet to begin negotiations over agency specific articles. At the Central table, we have a number of issues that we are close to resolving but certainly those that have economical impacts will take additional sessions to sort out and reach a mutual resolve. Specifically, the increase in the number of unpaid furlough days and the timing of those days are of great concern to the Union. We have stated that we are willing to discuss modifying the dates but were unable to do so because of the reaction to the proposal on Monday and the Union interest in canceling the remainder of last Monday's session and the scheduled bargaining session the next day, Tuesday February 24. We understand that it will take additional time to reach agreement over any planned furlough days and the affect that it may have on employees who may face financial impact when taking unpaid time and freeze in pay where steps remain on their classifications pay range in 09-11. We are aware that the employees may be organizing events in your offices. To alert you of the potential activities, you may have received a communication from your agency's director or designee asking that should there be work site demonstrations or requests to meet with you that you refrain from discussing bargaining positions. We appreciate your efforts in this regard. We are scheduled to reconvene negotiations on March 9 and 10 to continue negotiating over the open articles. We anticipate continuing to discuss proposals that include pay freezes and furlough of employees. We will try to provide updates on the status of negotiations as often as possible rather than you reading it in the news releases. Thanks for your continued support! Eva M Corbin Deputy Administrator, Labor Relations unit DAS - Human Resource Services Division Office Number (503) 378-8321 Facsimile Number (503) 373-7530 *****CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE***** This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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