Highlights of our contract

The full text of local 35's contract is available on Yale's Human Resources page. We'd like to highlight four sections in particular.

Extra Straight Time (section 3.2)
When extra time is available in a work unit, it must be distributed equally. It should go first to union members working less than 40 hours/week, and then should go to casual employees.

Health and Safety (section 19.7)
No member will be subject to discipline for refusing to perform work that the member considers unsafe.

Casual Employees (section 30)
We won the right to represent casual employees in the 1996 contract. Casuals who have worked in a department for 390 hours become members of the Local 35 bargaining unit, with all its rights and protections. Once someone reaches this point, they become a "post-probationary casual" and they may bid on posted positions.

Casual employees who have worked 780 hours in a one year period will be offered a permanent 10-hour position.

Benefit Level for Part-time Employees (section 3.2)
In the 1996 contract, members who average 20 hours a week for a period of 26 weeks will become benefit-level employees, and will be offered a schedule of at least 20 hours per week.

For the full contract, see Yale's Human Resources page.