We reached a final agreement in negotiations over new employee orientations for Lecturers on Wednesday, December 6 at UCLA. Agreement was reached for libraians on November 13 at Berkeley. We have persuaded the administration to hold Unit 18-specific orientations each quarter of the academic year (every fall, winter, spring). These new orientations will begin during spring quarter/semester 2018 on every campus.  Individual orientations for librarians will begin immediately. 

A few key points:

• New lecturers (and other Unit 18 members) will be advised of the time and place of the orientations through a link in their appointment letters.
• Our union will have a 30 minute presentation in addition to whatever content the campus administration presents.