November 9, 2017

FSU Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, Thursday, November 9, 2017

Members Present: Marlene Kim; John Hess; Peggy Walsh; Sofya Aptekar; Steve Levine; Joe Ramsey; Steve Striffler; Askold Melynczuk; Tina Mullins;  Monique Fuguet

Others Present: Lorenzo Nencioli, FSU Membership Coordinator; Jeff Keisler, TT Grievance Officer; Mickey Gallagher, MTA Consultant; Caroline Coscia, NTT Grievance Office

1. Approval of the agenda: Agenda amended to move bargaining update before elections (former was item #4 in original proposed agenda) and to a add recap of recent tenured fac FSU meeting.  Motion made to accept approval of amended agenda,. Motion seconded. Motion approved.
2. Approval of the 10/27/17 Ex Com meeting minutes: Motion to approve minutes. Motion seconded. Motion approved.
3. Bargaining update, feedback and discussion of issues and actions: Ex Com goes into executive session.

JOE RAMSEY LEAVES

     Executive session ends.

MICKEY GALLAGHER LEAVES

    4. Elections Timetable for Spring 2018 (see below): Motion to approve timetable made. Motion seconded. Motion approved.

   5. Payment to clinical nurse bargaining team members: Treasurer recommends paying them $2K or $3K total from FSU budget now then revisit possibility of paying them additional money in Spring        depending on later assessment of budget. Motion made to pay $3K total ($1.5K to Pat Halon and $1.5K to JoAnn Mulready-Shick) and revise in the spring as suggested by the Treasurer. Motion seconded. Motion approved.

     6. 20 minute conversations each week: Discussion of phone calls, suggestions on length of calls.  Discussion that phone calls should be updates/information and to not make decisions. 

7. All In/Emerge:  Appeal to Ex Com to help identify members to do one on one conversations from report from first EMERGE Committee meeting. Noted that focus has shifted slightly from membership campaign to general outreach, relationship building. 

TINA MULLINS ENTERS

Tina agrees to do direct outreach to other librarians. Peggy agrees to do the same in her department.

    8. Report of FSU tenured faculty meeting: Ten or so faculty attended. Racial equity and workload issues were raised. Concern expressed about ODI’s effectiveness. Discussion about union’s inability to help       on some of these issues, and discussion about forming workgroups on these issues and getting people to lead these.

    9. Discussion of agenda and if members were reading reports.  

MEETING ENDS

FSU Executive Committee Election Schedule for Spring 2018

Note:  Classes begin January 22, 2018. Martin Luther King Day is Monday, January 15^th. Presidents’ Day (university holiday) is Monday, Feb. 19.  Spring Break begins Sunday, March 11^th.