Columbia Gorge Community College, The Dalles campus.
Trisha Walker photoTHE GORGE — The union at Columbia Gorge Community College (CGCC) welcomed academic professionals into the union at a bargaining meeting May 22, as the employee relations board has accepted their formal petition.
Now it’s a matter of updating all the faculty contract’s language to include academic professionals. Child Care Partners Professional Navigator Ryan Brusco has joined the bargaining team to represent the academic professionals’ interests.
Meanwhile, over the last two meetings, other management and union are still back-and-forthing over notification periods, grievance processes, layoffs and recalls, and the definition of “family” as applied to family leave — union leadership would like to see employees able to dictate who is their family, said Vice-President tina ontiveros.
An ongoing issue is still whether staff who are laid off, then recalled, can refuse a job they feel unqualified for without losing their recall status. Another: if CGCC fails to complete required evaluations of new employees, that should not be reason to extend their probationary status, said union leaders.
There’s also the college’s position that work emails and mail services “shall not be used for the general distribution of union communications or for distributing materials of a political nature.” What, the union asked, is the definition of “political nature?”
The teams still have 15 articles to open, and more than 20 kicking back and forth. The college’s financial counter is still waiting on further development of CGCC’s late budget. Vice President Jarrett Gilbert said the college’s priority is still to keep employees at average pay for the state, and that academic professionals will be included in the next counter.
Outside finances, agreement was amicably reached on many articles.
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