Report on the November 18, 2004
Joint Policy Board/Initiative Steering Committee Meeting
December 21 , 2004
The meeting began with discussion of the creation of new best practices
groups and how to encourage their formation and give them needed support.
One approach will be to refer interested people to the "Getting Started"
page on the best practices website, http://www.yale.edu/bestpractices . We
will also develop a database to track team progress in departments, and we
have agreed that they will coordinate their work with other committees and
with HR's Labor Relations staff.
The Interim Employment Pool was also discussed, as follow-up to concerns
raised at the last meeting that those in the pool are not being hired into
permanent positions at the rates we would have hoped. A joint
union-management subcommittee has been formed to work on solutions to this
problem. The group is working with Human Resources and expects to present
recommendations to the steering committee at the 12/16 meeting.
We discussed the presentation that Laura Smith and Bob Proto made to the
Yale Medical Group Board of Governors on best practices and the progress
of new best practices committees, which we feel is off to an excellent
start, given the strong support by senior management and by those
represented by the unions. Dining Services has also been meeting, as has
the Yale Health Services. With good facilitation and support, we expect
these groups to create models for how to start and sustain a best
practices committee.
We discussed the possibility of creating a best
practices committee in Human Resources' Union Relations group. This will
give a strong signal that best practices, and the cooperative spirit it
engenders, is creating a new approach to labor relations at Yale.
Access of union organizers at the workplace was raised, and we agreed to
have Laura Smith and Lloyd Suttle develop guidelines for these visits.
The issue of bonuses for Local 34 members was also raised, and there
appears to be considerable confusion on how this process will work. We do
not want to slow down the creation of best practices committees or have
people creating the committees simply to receive bonuses. The Policy
Board agreed to work this out, and we will communicate it broadly so that
it is clear how the structure will work.
The next meeting is December 16.
* Policy Board: John Pepper (Vice President for Finance and Administration), Bob Proto (President, Local 35), Laura Smith (Account Assistant, Development, President, Local 34), Lloyd Suttle (Deputy Provost)
** Initiative Steering Committee: Ron Altieri (Electrician, Local 35), John Bollier (Associate Vice President for Facilities Management), Marianne Dess-Santoro (Executive Director of Patient Financial Services & Associate Director Yale Medical Group), Yolanda Giordano (Account Assistant, Pediatrics, Local 34), Maureen Malone Jones (Library Services Assistant, Sterling Memorial Library, Local 34), Janet Lindner (Associate Vice President for Administration), Antonio Lopes (Autopsy Technician in Pathology, Local 34), Robert Schwartz (Associate Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer), Diane Turner (Associate University Librarian for Human Resources, Staff Training & Security), Mark Wilson (Custodian, Local 35)
*** Facilitator: Janet Castricum (Right Management Consultants)
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