Team Members:

• From left: Steve Vanko, Tim Harvey, Josef Bailey, Brandon Taylor, Ron Rawls, Stephanie Scott, Debbie Brookman (chief negotiator) and Mary Ann Armstrong. Not pictured:   David Garcia (Police)
  

Labor Advocate (negotiator): 

• Debbie Brookman

Next team negotiations:

• Wednesday, Aug. 25
• Thursday, Aug. 26
• Thursday, Sept. 2
• Other dates TBA

Next team meetings:

• Friday, Aug. 27 (team meeting, tentative)

Contact the Team:

• Email the Team here.
  

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WFSE Bargaining Team Report
For Western Washington University Bargaining Units A, B, and E
July 29, 2010
 
 
Your bargaining team met with management on Wednesday, July 28th.  This was our sixth day of bargaining.  Our day was spent primarily finalizing agreement on noncontroversial articles.  The team and management tentatively agreed on 22 articles:
 
Preamble
Article 1 – Union Recognition
Article 2 – Nondiscrimination
Article 3 – Workplace Behavior
Article 6 – Performance Evaluation
Article 9 – Training and Development
Article 13 – Shared Leave
Article 14 – Uniformed Service Shared Leave
Article 19 – Leave Without Pay
Article 23 – Travel
Article 24 – Commute Trip Reduction and Parking
Article 25 – Licensure and Certification
Article 27 – Resignation and Abandonment
Article 30 – Grievance Procedure
Article 31 – Legal Defense
Article 34 – Reasonable Accommodation and Disability Separation
Article 39 – Seniority
Article 45 – VEBA
Article 49 – Contracting
Article 51 – Entire Agreement
Article 53 – Printing of Agreement
Article 54 – Term of Agreement
 
We are hoping to start bargaining on economic issues the next time we meet with management on August 11, 2010.
 
Questions, concerns and additional information may be obtained by contacting one of your bargaining team members:
 
Team Member                                                  Campus Phone
 
Brandon Taylor, President                                              2878
Joe Bailey, Vice President                                                3555
Ron Rawls, Treasurer                                                       3208
Mary Ann Armstrong, BUA Rep                                     7600
Tim Harvey, BUB Rep                                                       4966
Steve Vanko, BUB Member                                             3420
Stephanie Scott, BUA Member                                       3500
Dave Garcia (police issues)                                             4141