The University and the UC-AFT hereby agree to meet to discuss issues related to librarian
compensation, recruitment, and retention. The purpose of these meetings is to:
establish a mutually agreed upon comparison group;
identify consistent and verifiable standards for analyzing and reporting librarian
salary data across UC campuses;
create a single data set for UC librarian salaries;
establish benchmarks within the comparison group against which UC librarian
salaries shall be measured.
These meetings will occur monthly, or otherwise by mutual agreement starting November 2003
and concluding no later than June 30, 2004. At the initial session, the parties will set ground
rules for subsequent meetings and will obtain advice about the project from a mutually agreed
upon compensation consultant. The fees for such consultant, if any, will be shared equally by
the parties.
If the parties have not reached agreement on items #a through #d above, by March 30, 2004,
they agree to bring in a facilitator to help achieve resolution of the issues.
The University and the UC-AFT may each designate up to five individuals to attend the
aforementioned meetings. Bargaining unit librarians designated by the UC-AFT shall receive
paid release time to attend the meetings. If more than one representative is from a single
campus, only one representative shall be entitled to paid release time.
The location of the meetings shall alternate between UC's Kaiser Center in Oakland and the
AFT facility in Burbank with initial meeting to take place in Oakland.
Peter Chester
Chief Negotiator
University of California
