HR Update; July 11, 2008
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- Court Issues Restraining Order Against Strike
- Quick Online Access to Employee Opinion Survey Results
- UCSF Leadership Development Initiative
- UC Retirement Readiness Education Programs
Court Issues Restraining Order Against Strike
University of California officials announced today (July 11) that the Superior Court of San Francisco has issued a temporary restraining order against the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees union prohibiting its announced strike scheduled for July 14-18 at UC facilities throughout the state.
AFSCME represents UC patient care and service employees, and the university has been in separate negotiations with the union for new contracts for both employee groups since last year.
“Hopefully, today’s court ruling, and the recent complaint against the union by the Public Employment Relations Board, will motivate the union to refocus its attention on settling these negotiations,” said Howard Pripas, executive director of labor relations at UC. “Our proposals are fair and responsive to many of the union’s expressed concerns, and our employees deserve to have these negotiations resolved.”
On Wednesday, July 9, the Public Employment Relations Board, the state agency responsible for overseeing collective bargaining for public sector employers, issued a complaint against AFSCME for bad-faith bargaining, for failing to give adequate notice of a planned strike and for encouraging employees to participate in a strike against UC facilities even though their absence from work would clearly endanger the public’s safety.
UC has offered the union numerous proposals, the latest of which include minimum wage increases of 26 percent over the next five years for patient care employees, and increases in minimum hourly rates for service employees from $10.28 to $11.50 or $12.00 depending on location. UC has also offered to transition these employees to a step-based salary structure, which was proposed by the union, and to continue to provide them the same high-quality health and pension benefits offered to all UC employees, at the same cost as other employees.
The university expects AFSCME members to obey the court order and report to work as scheduled.
AFSCME represents approximately 11,000 UC patient care technical and 8,000 service employees.
More information about these negotiations can be found at:
http://www.ucpatientcaretechs.com
Quick Online Access to Employee Opinion Survey Results
The 2008 Campus Staff Opinion Survey results are now available online. On June 24, Morehead Associates sent all survey unit managers an email titled “Employee Survey Results,” which included access instructions and an individualized username and password. The instructions from Morehead are lengthy, so we’ve put together this quick guide for survey unit managers.
Please note that the survey results website also provides tools to help explain scores and develop action plans to address areas of concern. For technical support, call 800-849-2292 (choose Option 2) or email .
- Step 1: Visit https://www.moreheadmsp.net/ec2, enter the username and password provided by Morehead, and log in. Note: the website is slow; results may take several seconds to appear.
- Step 2: Overview of survey unit results appears on the first page.
- Step 3: Point the mouse at the title of your survey unit name listed in blue ink. A drop down box will appear listing “look at the snapshot.” Click it to go to your survey unit detail report.
- Step 4: The Tier Score page will appear. At the left of the page, gray shaded boxes provide options for viewing different sets of data (Tier Score, Commitment, Action Readiness, Strengths, Concerns, and All Items). By clicking each section shaded in gray, you will see the detailed results.
- Step 5: Toward the top of the page, there will be four (4) tabs highlighted in teal color providing you with options for utilizing your report.
- Step 6: To print a report, click the PDF Print Center tab. Once you are on that page, press Search, and a list of all available documents to print and/or save will be provided. Note: Leave the search Term box blank to see all available documents.
- Step 7: Click the Documents tab to view available guides by Morehead Associates.>/li>
- Step 8: Action Planning: This tab provides options for action planning. In addition, there will be further instruction from Medical Center Administration regarding an action planning process in the near future.
- Step 9: When finished: Click Log Out in the upper right corner of the screen.
UCSF Leadership Development Initiative
Both the Leadership Academy and the Leadership Institute are being delivered by a national leadership development and performance enhancement company, Enlightened Leadership Solutions (ELS). With over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, ELS provides leaders with people-centered approaches, ensuring that they, and their organizations, thrive.
Leadership Academy (MSPs 5 and above)
The journey of leadership—9 days of leading innovation and change, focusing on communication, collaboration, and team building. The Leadership Academy is an in-depth experiential program that will take your leadership to a new level—that of the enlightened leader.
Leadership Institute (MSPs 1-4)
Breakthrough leadership—5 days of establishing strategic directions, fostering information and resource sharing, and utilizing new models of inquiry and decision making. The Leadership Institute is a robust interactive program that provides the skills, tools and processes essential to inspirational leadership.
The deadline for program nominations is today – Friday, July 11. If you are interested in the program and have missed the deadline, please contact Aja Duncan at 415-502-4528 or . For program descriptions and nomination forms, visit http://leader.ucsf.edu/ and click on the programs menu item.
Read about UCSF’s Leadership Development Initiative on UCSF Today.
UC Retirement Readiness Education Programs
As you can see from the reminder below, currently there is a “lull” in the summer-time schedules for the Retirement Readiness Workshops, so now is a good time to contact your Departmental Personnel/Benefits Representative and request to have a workshop in your department.
Otherwise, please pass this on to your colleagues, circulate invitations, post the actual scheduled workshops happening near your location, or re-broadcast these weekly reminders about our valuable (free) education programs for faculty and staff. Bring your lunch, your questions, your spouse/partner ...
- UC Retirement Plan (UCRP)—UC’s Defined Benefit Plan
- “The Features of UCRP”
- Coming Again Soon—Stay Tuned
- Refer to these schedules for details and future workshops
- The Future of UCRP
- UC Retirement Savings Plans—the 403(b), 457(b), and DC Plans
- “Enrolling in Your UC Retirement Savings Program”
- Coming Again Soon—Stay Tuned
- “Determining Your Right Investment Strategy”
- Coming Again Soon—Stay Tuned
- “Achieving a Sound Retirement”
- Coming Again Soon—Stay Tuned
- “Understand the How-tos of Fidelity’s NetBenefits Website”
- Coming Again Soon—Stay Tuned
- Refer to these schedules for details and future workshops
- Arrange to have these workshops at a meeting in your department
- Focus on Your Future!
Usually there can be at least one (or more) workshop(s) per week scheduled at various UCSF locations around town. For more details and listings for upcoming scheduled presentations, please refer to our Workshops and Presentations Schedules menus found at our local UCSF HR/Benefits website.
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