AFSCME Wage Parity Resolution
Re-Presented to the SUA 11/21/06

Whereas, a UCSC Custodian Starts earning $10.90/hour and within seven years is earning $11.97/hour, and

Whereas, six miles down the road at Cabrillo Community College a custodian starts at $13.90/hour and within seven years is earning $18.63/hour, a difference over $6/hour, and

Whereas, AFSCME has been struggling for parity wages for over a year, and

Whereas, acting Chancellor Blumenthal has identified more than $400,000 for low wage workers on campus and submitted two proposals to the offices of the President in October, and

Whereas, the proposal submitted incorporated:
1. All full time workers making less than $25,000 a year will be brought up to $25,000.
2. Those full time workers making between $25,000 and $35,000 will receive pay equities based on their seniority on campus, and

Whereas, UCSC Administration reported to AFSCME that President Dynes will not sign these proposals because he want to tie this money to AFSCME’s worker’s current Pensions bargaining, and

Whereas, with the help of the Speaker of the House – Fabian Nunez and Don Peralta, Custodians at UCSC, UCB, UCSB and 100 grounds keepers at UCI have also identified $8.5 million in the UC budget, and

Whereas, President Dynes has not allocated this money to its intended location, and

Whereas, a letter from Peralta and Nunez was sent to Dynes to remind him of the money and where it is suppose to go, and

Therefore, let it be resolved that the representative body of the undergraduates of UCSC, SUA:
• Support AFSCME in it’s effort to receive parity wages.
• Will send a letter to President Dynes urging him to release and allocate the designated monies.
• Will have respective constituencies sign pledge cards to send to President Dynes urging him to release and allocate the designated monies.