Springfield Technical Community College
Professional Association

September 19, 2005

Location: Scibelli Hall/7th Flr.

Call to Order: 12:30

Present: 56 members in attendance including Executive Committee
Reports

Secretary, L. Kleindienst

Minutes of April 19, 2005. Motion to Accept M. Donovan, R. Rodgers. Passed.

President, C. Mathison

In the interest of saving time Carol distributed a number of documents of importance to the members. These included:

* Message from the Day Bargaining Team
* Proposed motion on Work to Rule
* Update on GPO/WEP

She reported that at the last meting of the Board on September 16, 2005 it was recommended that chapters vote to go off Work to Rule. R. Rodgers presented the following motion:

Moved that STCC go off Work to Rule beginning today, September 19, 2005, conditioned upon the Governor signing the ratified contract within 45 days of receipt. If on November 1, 2005 said contract has not been signed by the Governor, STCC will immediately return to aggressive Work to Rule.

The motion was addressed by numerous members and the advantages and disadvantages of going off Work to Rule were thoroughly discussed. R. Albano noted that the Board itself was split on the recommendation. At 1:00 C. Mathison brought the discussion to a close and a vote was taken. The motion failed with 21 voting in favor and 35 against.

SAC Report, R. Albano

Roberta distributed several documents also, including:

* Written SAC Report which she reviewed. (see attached)
* Copy of Senate Bill 2063 (MCCC 03 Buyback) with supporting documents
* Copy of Senate Bill 1535 (Adjunct eligibility for state group health insurance)

Included in this information are dates of hearings for the above Bills and also information on House Bill 530 which would remove the Governor from the contract negotiations equation. She noted that the legislature is reluctant to act on this Bill because they do not want to be involved in negotiations aspect of contracts. There is also House Bill 189 which would provide Pension Benefits for part time faculty and staff. Additionally, there are several hearings being conducted by the Higher Education Committee. Most important in all of this is the need for members to contact their legislators and the Chairs of the Public Service Committee in support of these Bills. Anyone who can is encouraged to attend the hearings and support those who are testifying on behalf of the Bills. Legislators need to hear stories from members.
Business

M. O'Brien asked if any efforts were being made to support SEA. C. Mathison noted that in the spring, e-mails were sent about SEA activities and how to participate, but nothing since then.

Classification Points: During the late summer it came to the attention of the Executive Committee that Human Resources had not created a database of information when the classification system was adopted by the last contract. Everyone is being encouraged to check their Classification File which is in Human Resources to be sure all the information is up to date and correct. With the new contract it is crucial that members know their point base as of 2000. There have been errors with post tenure evaluation points being credited/not credited.

L. Harrington stated she had gone over to Human Resources and all she found in her file was the original M004. She had no idea what her point total should be. C. Mathison said that there should be updates for annual points and post tenure evaluation points - if applicable - through 2001. C. Szlachetka said faculty had not gotten these updates and many other members agreed with her. Most professional staff did receive the updates although there are discrepancies found in these. Clearly this is a huge problem. C. Mathison will be speaking with M. Smith and President Rubenzahl regarding these problems.

Due to the lateness of the hour, C. Mathison will send out e-mail information on other matters on the agenda that she had hoped to cover.

Motion to Adjourn, 1:38 M. Mazeika, T. Glanville. Passed

Secretary,

Lynn Kleindienst

Lynn Kleindienst