Academy for Academic Personnel Administration
Fall 2003
Round Table Report
1. Institution Information
Name of Institution/System: State University of New York System Administration
Name of Individual Responding: Raymond L. Haines, Jr.
Title of Individual Responding: Director of Employee Relations
2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Composition: Full time and part-time faculty, including department chairs, physicians, librarians, professionals such as bursar, registrar, assistant to chair, admissions officers and hospital professionals.
Bargaining Agent: United University Professions/New York State United Teachers/AFL-CIO
Date of First Contract: 1/2/71
Number of Succeeding Contracts: 10
2b. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Composition: Graduate and teaching assistants
Bargaining Agent: Graduate Student Employees Union/Communications Workers of America AFL/CIO
Date of First Contract: 3/17/94
Number of Succeeding Contracts: 2
2c. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
2d. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):
Negotiations for a successor agreement with UUP (representing faculty and non-teaching support staff) opened in February 2003. Current Agreement expired June 30, 2003.
Negotiations for a successor agreement with GSEU (representing graduate assistants and teaching assistants) opened in June. Current Agreement expired June 30, 2003. No progress to date due to State's fiscal situation.
4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)
Negotiations with Graduate Student unit (GSEU) delayed by internal reorganization of parent/affiliate (CWA) changing designation of local through merger with private units. State ultimately concluded GSEU retained independent negotiating authority sufficient to retain certification status.
GSEU now organizing Research Fellows (non-state employees) at SUNY's Research Foundation, a private organization, through the NLRB.
Joyce Villa retired in December. Ray Haines assumed Joyce's responsibilities.
5. Special happenings related to fiscal issues (e.g., salary reductions, health and dental insurance costs, reductions in force, early retirement programs, program consolidation or elimination, etc.):
State experiencing fiscal crisis due to combined residual impact of 9/11, general economic slow down, and decline of the stock market. Forecast is that this is first of 3 year cycle putting State in worst economic situation since the 1980s.
State withheld increases (normally same as ATB's for units) in fiscal 2002 for all management employees earning more than $75,000.