The AEU Negotiations team met early Friday morning, May 18, 2012.  Please stay tuned for regular updates, and be on the look out for a "first" survey!
In Solidarity, AEU NEGOTIATIONS TEAM:
Karen Hartmann, Co-Chair
Scott Hendries, Co-Chair
Valerie Hollins
Dvora Mayer
Arnold Morin
Debbie Pichetto

AEU Vice President Patty Atherton led a delegation from AEU (Val Hollins, Patty Truskolaski and Jason Ter Keurst) to present a donation in the amount of $2,200 to the CSEA Humanitarian Fund at the December 2011 CSEA Board Meeting.  Receiving the check were CSEA Board Members Linda Blanchard, Martha Penry, Delores Rodriguez, and Dale Sorenson.

Here are the election results reported from the Election Committee today:

Support Staff:
Debbie Pichetto    42
Patty Atherton        22

Member at Large North:
Karen Hartmann  58
Lee Coelho            39

There were 12 invalid ballots.

February 3, 2012

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June 24, 2011

At the March AEU Executive Board meeting a motion was made and carried to once again donate $1,500.00 to purchase prizes for a raffle at the AEU Booth at the CSEA Conference to raise money for the CSEA Humanitarian Fund.

AEU has done this for the past two years and has usually increased the amount raised to $2,000.00 in total. This year, partly because the vendor fair has been extended an extra day and because of the travel involved (a Las Vegas venue) AEU asked the Executive Director for release time for three employees, all H.Q. staff to be able to attend and run the booth.

Understanding that this would cost CSEA nothing, there would be no substitutes hired, their work would still be there when they returned, the request was denied, without explanation (CLICK HERE).

There seems to be a lot of talk about member staff partnerships, and on the ground at the rank and file level that is the rule rather than the exception. Sadly however, it seems not to be the case at the CSEA management level.

Carlo Tarantola

President
Association Employees Union