Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Policy statement. Youngstown state
university recognizes the right of eligible faculty and staff to be represented
by an exclusive bargaining representative for purposes of collectively
negotiating agreements defining the terms and conditions of employment. This
recognition is extended solely to faculty and staff who are defined as "public
employees" in section
4117.01 of the Revised
Code.
(B) Purpose. To establish a
framework for the professional and collegial negotiation of successor
agreements with each bargaining unit that achieve the goals of both the
university and bargaining unit members.
(C) Definitions.
(1) Division (C) of section
4117.01 of the Revised Code
defines "public employees" as ""any person holding a position by appointment or
employment in the service of a public employer, including any person working
pursuant to a contract between a public employer and a private employer and
over whom the national labor relations board has declined jurisdiction on the
basis that the involved employees are employees of a public employer""
Exceptions applicable to colleges and universities include:
confidential employees, management level employees, supervisors, students whose
primary purpose is educational training, including graduate assistants or
associates, residents, interns, or other students working as part-time public
employees less than fifty per cent of the normal year in the employee's
bargaining unit; and part-time faculty members of an institution of higher
education.
(D)
Procedures. The board of trustees of Youngstown state university within its
fiduciary responsibility provides oversight of collective bargaining between
the university and the bargaining units that represent employee groups. The
board and university administration shall fulfill the following
responsibilities within the collective bargaining process:
(1) The chairperson of the board of trustees
or his/her designee will act as the sole spokesperson for the board of trustees
on any matters related to negotiations.
(2)
The university affairs committee shall be the committee
through which collective bargaining issues are presented and discussed with the
board of trustees. This committee will provide the necessary
authorizations for administration negotiations teams and will establish
parameters for board of trustees' participation and communications for each
negotiation.
(3) The administration
will present to the university affairs committee for its review and
consideration the administration's recommendations for membership of the
university negotiation team, the chief negotiator, the role of legal counsel
and bargaining approach (e.g., traditional versus interest-based). The
administration will also provide overviews of issues and outcomes of past
negotiations, internal and external contexts, financial parameters, and
university goals and priorities as well as anticipated bargaining unit goals
and priorities.
(4) The
university affairs committee will review overall
financial parameters for each negotiation and any changes to those parameters
during the course of each negotiation.
(5) During each negotiation, the
administration will update the designated committee on overall progress,
university and bargaining unit positions, proposed draft language, tentative
agreements, and new issues.
(6)
When a final tentative agreement is reached, and after legal review, the
administration will provide to the university
affairs committee a summary of major changes to the agreement and a
complete redline version of the proposed agreement, including all appendices
typically at least one week in advance of the scheduled meeting.
(7)
If a fact finder
report is issued, the report shall be brought to the university affairs
committee for discussion and vote.
(8) The university
affairs committee will recommend action on the proposed agreement
or fact finder report to the full board of
trustees.
(9) The board of
trustees must ratify all final collective bargaining agreements.
(10)
At the conclusion of each round of negotiations, the university
affairs committee will prepare recommendations to guide the next round of
negotiations.
