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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984
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302 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [July 21 size, organization, structure, and operation by a commission composed of members of the faculty and student electorates, and administrative officials. Such commission shall report its findings and make recommendations. The report of the commission shall be made public and distributed as all other reports of the Senate. [The first report shall be submitted not later than three years after the first election under this constitution.] (Proposed changes in the bylaws of the three senates are filed with the secretary of the board for record.) O n m o t i o n of M r . S t o n e , these a m e n d m e n t s t o t h e U r b a n a - C h a m paign Senate's constitution were approved. Revision of Policy and Rules — Nonacademi'c (Chapter V — Negotiations) (19) The Board of Trustees' policy on negotiations with employee representatives dates to 1945 and the rules governing the recognition of an employee organization for exclusive representation of an employee bargaining unit has been in effect since June 16, 1981. In recent months the University has conducted an examination of these and other related areas of collective bargaining as they affect civil service staff. The examination was initiated, in part, in conjunction with the periodic internal reviews of the Policy and Rules — Nonacademic, and partly in response to suggestions received by the University that its policies do not reflect the general practice found in most other comparable institutions. T h e current policy requires that a majority of employees in the un't must vote for a representative organization — regardless of the voter turnout. T h e more common practice, however, is one which would require that only a majority of those who actually vote in the election be necessary to establish majority status. Although public institutions of higher education are not under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board, the University of Illinois follows NLRB guidelines in many other aspects of the negotiations process. National Labor Relations Board standards provide that a majority of those voting in an election decides the issue even though the total number of employees who vote affirmatively in an election may not constitute a majority of those in the bargaining unit. Therefore, the vice president for business and finance has recommended that the Board of Trustees approve amendment of Policy and Rules — Nonacademic, as indicated in the following. I concur. Chapter V, Negotiations Current Language Section 36d of the State Universities Civil Service System Statute authorizes negotiations "to determine appropriate ranges or rates of compensation or other conditions of employment" for recommendation "to the Merit Board for establishment . . ." T h e University recognizes the principle of collective bargaining in respect to nonacademic employees. Each employee may make his/her own personal decision on employee organization membership. There will be no discrimination against any employee because he/she is a representative of nonacademic employees. The University will grant exclusive representation to and negotiate with an organization of nonacademic employees when such organization has been designated to represent them by a majority of the employees within an appropriate negotiations unit. Supervisors will be informed in detail as to the content of any collective agreements applicable to employees under their supervision. T h e President shall issue such rules as are appropriate and necessary to carry out this policy.
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