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AFSCME President Lee Saunders praised the White House’s announcement Thursday that the Biden administration will forgive student loans for an additional 78,000 borrowers — including many AFSCME mem

AFSCME: Andrew Jones, Chuck Carlson, Scott Grefe, John Collins, Connie Anderson, and Jeremy Tubbs Management: Melissa Gresczyk, Tudy Fowler, Carol Olson, Rita Olson, Thomas Kelly, Colleen Ryan, and Tom Christiensen

Present- Labor: Scott Grefe, Chuck Carlson, Andrew Jones, Connie Anderson, John Knobbe, Molly Kennedy. Management: Carol Olson, Tom Christensen, Adam Anderson, Rita Olson, Thomas Kelly, Colleen Ryan, Elizabeth Blomberg, Tudy Fowler, Jenn Frew.

AFSCME Agenda Items:

1. Overall responsibility for positions and bidding – 3 Program Directors. Who is responsible for tracking open positions and submitting 1768s?

Attendees: Andy Jones, Molly Kennedy, John Collins, Chuck Carlson, Tim Headlee, Scott Grefe, Tom Christiansen, Melissa Gresczyk, John Knobbe, Jen Frew, Carol Olson, Coleen Ryan, Connie Jones, Elizabeth Blomberg, Tudy Fowler

AFSCME agenda items:

1. Update of Reorg: Carol O. will be discussing the org chart at the Joint Labor Management meeting on Friday and Town Hall meetings are scheduled for Wednesday, May 2nd.

Attendees: Melissa Gresczyk, Tudy Fowler, Colleen Ryan, David Proffitt, Anne Barry, Connie Anderson, John Collins, Annie Jakacki, John Knobbe, Chuck Carlson, Tim Headlee, Molly Kennedy (Recorder)

Update of Reorg: A. SC Leads and RN partnership – will be addressed via a steering committee. B. Lead coverage on units and more positions – on hold at this time. C. Status of PD’s – completed and final version distributed

Labor: Chuck Carlson, John Collins, Jeremy Tubbs, John Knobbe, Connie Anderson, Annie Jakacki, Ann Sullivan.
Management: David Proffitt, Colleen Ryan, Melissa Gresczyk, Elizabeth Blomberg, Tudy Fowler

Present: Tim Headlee, John Collins, Chuck Carlson, Scott Grefe, Jeremy Tubbs, Ann Sullivan (Recorder), Molly Kennedy, Annie Jakacki, Tudy Fowler, Jo Blaschko, Frank Schwartz, Jasmine Bohnert, Connie Anderson, Tom Christensen, John Knobbe, David Proffitt

Management Issues:

Management: Tom Christensen, David Proffitt, Colleen Ryan, Melissa Gresczyk, Tudy Fowler
Union: Tim Headlee, John Knobbe, Molly Kennedy, Ann Sullivan, Scott Grefe, Connie Anderson, Chuck Carlson

Present: Scott Grefe, Ann Sullivan (Recorder), Molly Kennedy, John Knobbe, John Collins, Connie Anderson, Michelle Chalin, Tudy Fowler, Melissa Gresczyk, Tom Christensen, Colleen Ryan, David Proffitt

Management Issues:

1) Discuss on goals/purpose of the labor management meeting. The purpose of these meetings will be to establish shared interests, to decide how we are going to work together on strategies for improvement and to decide what is working and what is not working. Clarification on issues that AFSCME members wish to have voiced will also be part of these meetings.