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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">CONFIDENTIAL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">IN FURTHERANCE OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">DO NOT FORWARD TO UAW MEMBERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dear Campus Stakeholder,
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The time has come for UC to officially start our preparations for the successor bargaining contract with UAW for the Graduate Student Researchers (GSR/BR unit) and Academic Student Employees (TAs, Readers, Tutors/BX unit).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">To prepare and to ensure that we understand stakeholder feedback, we are asking you to complete a confidential survey re: the
upcoming negotiations. There are three pieces of the survey to complete with different deadlines.
<b><span style="color:red">Please complete survey #1 by April 5<sup>th</sup>, and the two surveys that make up #2 by April 26<sup>th</sup>.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">A high-level Bargaining Preparation survey in SmartSheets that can be found
</span><a href="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/74b4925a5a3841b5a53aaaa1d016321f"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">here</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.
This survey asks broad questions that will help us prepare for bargaining, including the potential challenges and opportunities in merging the BR and BX contracts. Solutions-oriented responses are encouraged, and
<b><span style="color:red">this survey is due on April 5<sup>th</sup>.</span></b><span style="color:red">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Two surveys requesting article-specific feedback across the BR and BX contracts to capture the changes you believe the University should make during successor
bargaining. UCOP has designed the surveys to make it easy to capture <u>cross-functional feedback</u> at our location.
<b>The Bargaining Survey (</b></span><a href="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9c485ec4ded245c29a388119af9040b3"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">BR</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
and </span></b><a href="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/69b0d2dc36e14bf395781e70a85af685"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">BX</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">)
is due on April 26<sup>th</sup></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">, but we’re requesting your feedback sooner so we can review initial feedback at our April 12<sup>th</sup> meeting.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">These surveys should not be shared with bargaining unit members. Please note that this will
not be the only time we collect feedback from campus stakeholders during the bargaining process and that I am sharing this survey with multiple groups across campus.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Esperanza Steward, SHRM-SCP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Director of Academic Personnel Policy and Employee Relations<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Academic Personnel Office | University of California, Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Hinderaker Hall Room 2119<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Office: 951.827.2935</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> |
</span><a href="mailto:esperanza.steward@ucr.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">esperanza.steward@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">academicpersonnel.ucr.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none">Schedule a meeting:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-ligatures:none">
</span><a href="https://calendly.com/esperanza-steward/apper-one-on-one-session"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">https://calendly.com/esperanza-steward/apper-one-on-one-session</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0;mso-ligatures:none"><img border="0" width="238" height="75" style="width:2.475in;height:.7833in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DA868B.5AD90880"></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0;mso-ligatures:none">__________________________________________________________________________________________</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#4472C4;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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If you have received this communication in error, please notify UCR Academic Personnel Office immediately by telephone at 951-827-2933 or email at
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