March 6 Meeting Minutes

Chapter meeting 

3/6/2023 

87 members in attendance 

• Colleen Avedikian report on BOD meeting  

• Updates 

• February Advocacy day cancelled 
• Rescheduled March 30th? 
• MTA pays for buses 

• April 22nd MCCC annual meeting 

• Each chapter sends members 
• Let Mike know if you are interesting in going 
• Will be virtual 

• Lifting of vaccine mandate was a surprise to MCCC 

• Many questions to be answered 

• Chairs of teams will reach out for concerns  
• Union does not have power over the mandate, but can give input on impact 

• President Mike Geary discussion on WTR 

• Motions and how they work 

• Anyone can make a motion 

• Seconded 
• Open for discussion  

• Can go on until someone says “call the motion” 

• Anyone can make a friendly amendment to motion  

• If voted down, then back to original motion  

• Feel free to vote against a motion—don’t settle if you think we can do better 
• What do we need to do to go off work to rule? Pros and cons of going off WTR now (see generated list below) 
  • Draft motion:  
  • Raising of hands: 62–motion passed  
• • Motion to come off WTR effective immediately   
  • Seconded 
  • Straw poll: use poll feature (92%) 
  • Discussion? None  
  • Vote on question: yes 47 no 53% 
  • Bristol will remain on WTR 
  • • Motion: VONC in Laura Douglas  
    • Seconded 
    • Discussion 
    • Need bullets about how the decision to VONC has been made 
    • Motion to table until next meeting?  
    • Late in meeting; more participants needed for such an important vote  
    • Motion to table the motion on VONC  
    • Passed: 91% yes   
    • Motion to call an emergency/special meeting about VONC  
    • Special meetings of the membership may be held at the call of the President or upon written request to the Executive Committee from at least ten (10) members. Business to come before special meetings must be stated in the call to meeting, which shall be sent in writing or by email to each member of the BrCCC. Business shall be confined to those items. 

     

    •  Motion to end meeting 
    • Meeting adjourned   

     

    Stay on WTR 

    • Not much has changed for LLC 
    • Sends message that things are getting better; not enough progress 
    • Should be taking it seriously; still losing deans; reasons people are leaving have not changed; should we be creating a better/more comprehensive list 
    • Not causing admin enough pain 
    • Message to state is that we are still on WTR because we still have local problems 
    • No collaboration on problem solving, especially around hiring; work is being shifted to other employees who then get burned out 
    • Professional staff in LLC are really stressed out due to addition of duties 
    • Laundry list of complaints; sound like people are upset about the way college does business    

     

    Exiting WTR 

    • Has not been taken as seriously this time 
    • College is not making decisions based on WTR; not concerned 
    • Can use other strategies/job actions to push our positions 
    • Can be harmful if not followed 
    • Can we use motions for “asks” instead of WTR; can we roll back ways we are not cooperating at this point?  
    • Do we all have the same answer about why we are on WTR? 
    • Can we go off WTR and then back on for other reasons?  
    • Are there more targeted actions we can do? Can we file grievances for folks doing more than their E7s?  
    • Alternative job actions instead of WTR; maybe VONC? 
    • Need commitment of other members that WTR should be followed if we go back on; actions need support of all members and other union  
    • Express our voices in other ways