"Lecturers provide key instructional services at our campuses," said Dwaine Duckett, UC vice president of human resources. "We're pleased that we've reached a balanced agreement that rewards the lecturers for their hard work while taking into consideration the major funding constraints that the university is experiencing."
Highlights of the agreement include:
- Participation in the one-time salary increase program for 2011-12 for non-represented faculty and staff, based on individual performance. Eligible lecturers will receive 3 percent increases effective Oct. 1, 2011.
- Participation in the regular academic merit program for 2012-13 and 2013-14, for which lecturers as academic employees will be eligible as are all non-represented, non-student academic employees.
- The university and the union will reopen negotiations on salary in 2012-13 and 2013-14.
- Lecturers will pay the same rates for healthcare benefits as senate faculty and non-represented employees. UC will continue to pay the bulk of health insurance premium costs, or about 87 percent of costs on average.
- Lecturers will contribute to the UC Retirement Plan at the same rate as senate faculty and other non-represented employees.
- The university and the union will negotiate any structural post-employment benefit changes to the UC Retirement Plan for 2013-14.
- In addition, clarifications were made to many terms of the contract, including but not limited to the process for continuing appointments; discipline and dismissal; instructional workload; and layoffs.
The agreement will run through Sept. 30, 2014.