Nebraska Association of Public Employees/AFSCME Local 61
5625 O Street Suite 3, Lincoln NE 68502
Phone: 402/486-3911 or 1/800/522-NAPE . Fax: 402/486-3924
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Stand up with your fellow workers and defend your contract!
Here's a partial list of the changes to your rights as a Nebraska state employee
that the State's negotiators have placed in their initial proposals:
The State rejects an "Employee Bill of Rights" assuring the rights of employees to:
If you want to assure your basic rights in the workplace, and enforce those rights, join with your coworkers in NAPE and take a stand!
The State wants to severely limit the rights of grievants, including the right to file grievances on behalf of other similarly situated employees. They also want to extend THEIR time limits on responding to grievances while at the same time shortening YOUR time limits on filing grievances!
The State wants to eliminate arbitration by a neutral party, reserving the power to decide grievances for themselves!
The State doesn't want to give laid-off, experienced employees priority in hiring when filling open positions by re-establishing and administering the lay-off pool!
The State wants the right to make arbitrary changes to permanent work schedules!
The State doesn't want to implement weekend differential pay!
The State wants to take away overtime pay during work-related travel time!
The State wants to eliminate WRO for HHS employees, which was established to recognize seniority and fill vacancies quicker. This union-initiated program has, in our view, been working.
The State wants to sidestep legal obligations in publishing and promulgating rules, regulations and policies!
You have a lot at stake in the current bargaining for the next contract! If you don't want your rights to disappear, join with your coworkers in NAPE and take a stand to protect those rights!
The State wants the power to discipline, up to and including termination, employees for any mistake, no matter how insignificant!
The State wants the power to discipline, up to and including termination, employees for having prescription controlled drugs with them at work, even under their doctor's orders!
The State wants the power to discipline, up to and including termination, employees for "insubordination" without having to define the term!
The State wants to keep the power to suspend employees without pay, based solely on accusations by co-workers or supervisors of bad acts, for up to 30 days!
The State wants the power to use undocumented meetings with employees as evidence in subsequent disciplinary actions!
The State wants to keep the power to discipline employees a full year after the fact, while limiting YOU to 15 days for filing grievances against them when they violate your contract!
The State wants Holiday pay to be 8 hours for the day, even if you work 12-hour shifts!
The State wants to take away 4 1/2 more days of sick leave from long-term employees, and eliminate the tiered, seniority-based earnings schedule!
The State wants to take away injury leave for employees hurt on the job!
The State wants to keep the power to make you work up to 1/2 a month at a time doing the duties of a higher classification without paying you more for the added duties!
The State does not want to sit with NAPE and review job classifications where employees are poorly-paid, where there is high turnover, or where there is a problem filling positions.
The State does not agree with NAPE's proposal to work together and fix the problems of recruitment and retention of quality State employees! The State does not agree with NAPE's proposals for rewarding long-term State employees!
The NAPE Bargaining Team is working hard to keep and expand your rights as a State worker! Our focus for the 2001-2003 Contract is on:
What can you do?
Stand with your coworkers!
Join with your coworkers in NAPE and take a stand to protect your contractual rights! Show the Administration you're serious! Become a NAPE member and stand behind your coworkers in the Bargaining Team to bring back a fair contract that gives you real gains in pay and benefits and forces the Administration to finally address the problems of retaining, recruiting and rewarding quality State employees!
Join NAPE/AFSCME today. Take a stand with your coworkers. It's the biggest step you can take toward a fair contract in 2001.
It's your contract. You have a voice. Make it heard!
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