EMPLOYEE BILL OF RIGHTS
EMPLOYEE BILL OF RIGHTS
Each employee shall be expected to render a full day's work in an atmosphere of mutual respect and dignity; and free from significant abusive and/or arbitrary conduct by supervisors. Grievances involving this section shall normally be processed to step 2(Chief of Police); however, the Union may process institutional grievances to step 4.
Employer Conduct for Discipline. Whenever it becomes necessary to discipline an individual employee, the supervisor vested with said responsibility shall undertake said talks in a fashion calculated to appraise the employee of his/her shortcomings while avoiding embarrassment and public display
Since the start of the current contract negotiations in June of 1996, the Yale Police Benevolent Association(YPBA) had been attempting to incorporate this Employee Bill of Rights, taken from the State Of Connecticut, Protective Services contract, into our contract. Yale University has steadfastly refused to negotiate on this matter. As you can see, the language is blatantly fair on its face, it assures mutual respect in the workplace. The YPBA has received approximately nine complaints regarding inappropriate supervisor conduct. In that regard, we are attempting to address this problem via the proposed language. After 16 months, we are left asking ourselves these questions: Does Yale want to foster an atmosphere full of arbitrary and capricious conduct by its supervisors? Does Yale want its supervisors to inappropriately yell at employess in public? Evidently, the answer to these questions is"YES!"
Yale claims there is no problem, and that such language if adopted, would infringe on management's rights and its ability to run its operation. We say that's bull! Further, they say that such language would spur frivolous grievances. But as you can see, we provided protection against that by first giving the Chief of Police a chance to solve the problem. Ask yourself these questions: If Yale treated its employees fairly and with respect, why would they be so afraid of this language? If there was no problem, why would a union spend 16 months negotiating something that would not put a dime in our pockets? We have no interest in running the Yale Police Department, we just want a fair and equitable work atmosphere! Enough said!
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