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Minutes from Union Executive Committee Meeting

Present –Dennis Cecere, Peter Cokkinias, Marti Epstein, Danny Harrington, Helen Lewis, Margaret McAllister, Jeff Perry, Denise Pons, Stephanie Reich, Wendy Rolfe, Tom Stein, Jackson Schultz, David Scott, Elizabeth Seitz, Will Silvio, and Jeri Sykes, attorney Jeff Jacobsen.

  1. Danny made a motion to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. Peter seconded and the vote was unanimous to accept the minutes.

  2. Jackson and Jeff Jacobsen are meeting with Larry at 3 pm today to discuss the language that has been placed into the contract without our approval.

  3. We discussed the background checks that our being requested by HR for any faculty member hired in 2012 and later. These checks have the potential of going beyond the regular CORI check and we are pursuing a resolution.

  4. We reviewed several documents that we are working on to share with all faculty and department reps regarding the contract update and language issue.