QCC Chapter/MCCC

Minutes of meeting November 4, 2004

President’s Report:

§ Marilyn Martin introduced Joe LeBlanc, Vice President of the MCCC and chair of the bargaining team as well as Rick Doud, President of the MCCC.

§ UPPC: election today. Marilyn Kalal, Ginger Asadoorian, Laraine Somella, George Harris and Joanne Sharac are the committee. Unanimous vote to accept this slate.

§ MACER: the College payroll for October is now available on reserve in the library in a folder labeled “MCCC”. Marilyn urges all members to look at it. It is quite disturbing. The DMG Maximus report is there with all the job titles as well.

§ End of Year Lunch: Marilyn polled all 24 professional staff; 17 responded; 14 voted for during the week, in the daytime. Motion to have lunch on campus, during the week in the daytime. Unanimous vote to do so.

§ Work to Rule activities: report on leaflet activity at the Open House. Next on the agenda of activities is a teach-in. Marilyn met with the Student Senate, and they have reserved Hebert Auditorium on December 1 from 10-noon for a teach-in. Questions arose about this. Suggestion to invite a legislator such as Sen. Chandler. A committee is needed to develop the guidelines for the teach-in. Volunteers are Margaret Wong as chair, Kirsten Daigneault, Lisa Palmer, Brian Sholten, Michelle McCrillis, Lisa Cook, Denise Cross.

Political Action Report: John Solaperto and Dale Labonte:

§ Election went well. The Meet Mitt event is scheduled for this weekend (11/6). All are invited.

Vice President’s Report: Maureen Woolhouse:

§ no report

Treasurer’s Report: Karen Cox:

§ Motion to join the National Council for Education with dues of $120 annually; Unanimous

Secretary’s Report: Betsy Zuegg

§ Unanimous vote to accept last month’s minutes; Distribution of list of work to rule activities. Any member engaging in a work to rule activity, please email Betsy and she will add the activity to the list

Item for discussion: Academic Affairs Committee meeting for next week- will we adjourn? 7 members are on it from the faculty out of 20 members total. Maureen W will make the motion to adjourn and Maura Stickles will second. Paper vote will be requested. If the meeting is held, suggested to abstain from voting to show solidarity. Brenda Marshall is chair of that committee, so she will recognize the motion to adjourn.

Informational Item: Estella is taking a one-year leave of absence, so Maura Stickles and John Solaperto will share the Day Grievance responsibilities.

Day/DCE Grievance Report: Maura

§ Filed chapter grievance over IT problems affecting faculty/prof staff workload. Cathy Livingston supports letting the faculty not be evaluated for those courses where technology has negatively impacted the teaching environment. Please pay attention to the dates in the letter we will receive from Cathy Livingston. You must respond if you want to avoid the evaluation. Student evals are worth 25% of our overall evaluation.

§ One DCE grievance pulled back.

MACER Report: Ellen Vangel-Brousseau

§ Salaries posted in the library

§ Professional days issue discussed for professional staff. 3 professional days used in the fiscal year; one to be used for the day after Thanksgiving; other 2 are at the discretion of the supervisor.

Conversation with Rick Doud and Joe LeBlanc:

§ Work to Rule is going well statewide.

§ The history is explained in this way; there was a 3-year agreement signed and it called for the 5^th course. All the money in the contract was spend; we got a 1 year extension; we do have a contract, but we have no money to fund the extension; we have a signed agreement that BHE has failed to honor.

§ The idea of not teaching the 5^th course would be a strike. They suggested that we avoid that option. It is not legal.

§ Gov. wants to eliminate the agency fee.

§ On Dec. 13, a new round of bargaining will begin.

§ Membership at QCC expressed concern about our statewide Union leaders and negotiating team as to whether they are willing to confront the system. There was disappointment expressed with the statewide Union leadership. They were urged to be proactive rather than reactive.

§ Ongoing conversations…