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Article 7
Meet and Confer
The parties agree to meet and confer on issues that arise during the term of the Agreement.
MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
The following supplements and/or modifies the Master Contract.
Part 1. All MnSCU
1. Student Workers. No employee shall be laid off or demoted due to the utilization of student
workers.
2. Parking. The Employer agrees that all policies and fees relating to employee parking on
campus and Board office facilities shall be uniform for faculty and all other personnel on each
campus. On campuses which have a parking committee, the Local Union shall designate a
representative to the committee.
3. MnSCU Labor-Management Committee Representatives. Article 31, Section 3, of the
Master Agreement shall be supplemented and/or modified as follows:
The MnSCU Labor-Management Committee shall be composed of no more than nine (9)
representatives each from management and from the local unions. No more than two (2) local
union representatives from each campus shall be released without loss of pay.
In addition to the issues regularly discussed at the local Labor-Management meetings, the local
Labor Management committee shall discuss: the Employer’s use of student workers, the
institution’s academic calendar and summer appointment of seasonal employees.
4. MnSCU Safety Committee. A statewide Safety Committee shall be composed of no more
than seven (7) representatives each from management and from the local unions. The
committee shall address issues of campus safety plans, campus emergency plans, safety
training, and other safety-related issues.
5. Safety Committee Minutes. Each campus safety committee chair shall distribute copies of
their safety meeting minutes to the MnSCU Safety Officer and to the Local Union Presidents.
6. Seasonal Extensions. Article 15, Section 4, of the Master Agreement shall be supplemented
and/or modified as follows:
The Appointing Authority may assign work after the normal season ends or before the season
begins based on program requirements rather than seniority, such assignment(s) not to exceed
a total of four (4) weeks. When the assignment(s) exceeds the four (4) week total, it shall be
made in accordance with the Master Agreement. The above provision supplementing and/or
modifying Article 15, Section 4, shall not apply to State Universities and the Board Office.
7. Tuition Waiver. There shall be available to employees of the MnSCU System, a tuition waiver
as set forth below.
Employees shall have the choice to participate or not. The parties agree that should the Union
attempt to expand this waiver beyond employees of the MnSCU System, the waiver shall
immediately cease.
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