The next step is for CSUEU and CSU to negotiate over the impact of the placement of the LSS classification in BU 9. The CSU has sent the union an initial proposal which is described below. CSUEU’s bargaining team will be meeting soon to discuss the CSU’s proposal and develop our response. Our bargaining team will include several Library Assistants: Joan Kennedy (SLO), Jennifer O’Neal-Watts (Sacramento), Joseph Corica (East Bay) and Christine Thomas (Pomona). While it would be inappropriate to discuss our bargaining position before we formally respond to the CSU, our members deserve more than the status quo for this significant transition from BU 7 to BU 9. If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact one of our team members. Please see the CSUEU web site for the complete LSS documentation. We are working on some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that will be up on the web site soon.

Below is a summary of the CSU’s initial bargaining proposal:

• Implement the LSS classification effective May 2008.
• Move incumbent employees into the new series pursuant to the following Road Map:
  • Library Assistant I --> LSS, Level I
  • Library Assistant II --> LSS, Level II
  • Library Assistant III --> LSS, Level III
  • Library Assistant IV --> LSS, Level IV
  • Lead Library Assistant II --> LSS, Level II
  • Lead Library Assistant III --> LSS, Level III
  • Lead Library Assistant IV --> LSS, Level IV
• Maintain the same salary ranges for the LSS classification as the current LA series
• Give Lead Library Assistants the option of moving to new series, within 60 days of implementation date
• Lead Library Assistants who choose to move into the LSS class will not have any change to their temporary, probationary or permanent status. Time worked performing Lead LA duties will count for seniority purposes.
• The President may waive probation and grant permanent status to any Lead LA who is voluntarily reclassified and has had a timebase of 50% or greater for more than two years.
• If a Lead Library Assistant elects to remain in a Lead LA classification, the position will be filled with the appropriate Unit 9 classification once the position is vacated.
• Until bargaining over LSS implementation is completed, there will be no changes to the status quo.
• Once LA and Lead LA classifications are vacated, these classifications will be abolished.

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