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AFSCME Files Two Unfair Labor Practices Complaints Against Champaign County |
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by AFSCME via ML
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10 Jun 2002
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"We are told that Mr. Maupin has a directive out that says no employee can be given a personal business day off on a weekend." |
AFSCME Council 31 Staff Representative Jerry L. Wright announced today that AFSCME Council 31 has filled two unfair labor practice charges against Champaign County this week. Wright said, "Both charges stem from Champaign County's unwillingness to bargain in good faith over issues." Wright went onto say, "The first charge is a result of Deb Busey's refusal to provide information the Union requested to assist a member in a job re-evaluation request. The Collective Bargaining Law says the Union is entitled to all pertinent information needed to represent out members, Deb Busey is not the person that gets to make the decision on what is pertinent for the Union."
Becky Duffield, President of AFSCME Local 900 said, "This is another attempt by Deb Busey to block our efforts to represent our members. We will take whatever steps are necessary to make sure we receive all pertinent information so we can properly represent our members." Duffield also said, "This is the second unfair labor practice we have had to file over the job audit process, another charge was filled in March when Busey refused to provide the Union a break down of the points assigned job duties. By refusing this information Busey is restricting our ability to see if positions are being properly compensated for the work being performed. We suspect that management will use the system to have employees working at higher rated jobs without paying them the higher level pay."
The second unfair labor practice charge was filed against Jeremy Maupin, Director at the Champaign County Nursing Home charging that he has failed to bargain in good faith with the Union over the use of personal business days. Jerry Wright said, "In 2001 we negotiated a very strict attendance policy at the Nursing Home, a part of that agreement allows employees to take four personal days a year as long as they schedule the day off at least twenty-four hours in advance. Maupin has repeatedly refused to honor that part of the agreement, especially for employees that request a personal business day off during the weekend. Three times the Union has filed grievances over this issue and three times Mr. Maupin has been told that if he has a full compliment of employees scheduled to work he can not deny the personal business day request based on the possibility that other employees may call in sick. On each of the previous three grievances he was told he should have honored the employee's request for a personal business day off."
Wright went on to say, "We are told that Mr. Maupin has a directive out that says no employee can be given a personal business day off on a weekend. The agreement allows Mr. Maupin to deny a request for personal business based on operational need not on how many people might call in on a weekend. The procedure in place allows him to discipline those employees that abuse the system yet he continues allow people to miss work and has not utilized the progressive discipline process he negotiated with the Union. If the County Board Chairman can't stop him from continuing to violate our contract then we will see if the Illinois Labor Relations Board can." |
