UHPA’s Board of Directors Respond to Data Breach
A letter dated February 16, 2011, was sent to UH President M.R.C. Greenwood.
A letter dated February 16, 2011, was sent to UH President M.R.C. Greenwood.
Interested faculty should attend this hearing at 1:15 p.m in Conference Room 016, State Capitol, to find out the full extent of the problems at UH regarding data breaches.
With four data breaches within the University of Hawaii system over the past 18 months, there has been heightened interest in ways to protect faculty, students, alumni and others from seemingly inadequate information security policies and practices at the UH.
The University of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly have settled the dispute.
On May 10, 2010 the HLRB ruled that UH had failed to discuss methods for the union to receive information in the investigation of a grievance that alleges a promotion denial was the result of discrimination for union activity. UH has been ordered to negotiate with UHPA over the methods to be employed in obtaining the necessary information to proceed to grievance arbitration.
A Hawaii 2005 law encourages state employees to help the Kidney Foundation save lives.
SB 2695 SD1 HD1 which would have cut the University of Hawaii another $59 million did not survive the House Finance committee. There were numerous people testifying in opposition to these cuts. Those testifying included UHPA President Duane Stevens, UH President M.R.C Greenwood, UH Board of Regents, business leaders and students.
Support a Temporary Modest GET Increase. (Click on the title for more information.)
On Friday, February 5, The House Committee on Labor and Public Employment will hold a hearing at 9:30 am in conference room 309 on expanding the rights of employees to negotiate benefits. This legislation is needed to ensure that benefits are directly negotiable with public employers and the topics may include benefits, benefit plan, and employer contributions. This means that the exclusive bargaining representative can fully engage in negotiations that the current EUTF statute has prohibited. For faculty this means more direct influence over your total compensation and how wage and benefits are balanced to take better advantage of the non-taxable nature of health care benefits. This also means greater stability in benefit plans and the contribution responsibility of the employer.
The proposal to reform EUTF advanced by the public sector unions will be heard on Friday, February 5, at 9:30 am in Capital Room 016. This proposal seeks to significantly change the operations of the EUTF to ensure that employees and their families are the primary focus of benefit plans. As beneficiaries their interests must be paramount in the funding and benefit decisions made by the EUTF Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is expanded from 10 to 12 trustees with unions and employers each given 6 representatives. Public sector unions would appoint their respective Trustee who serve at the discretion of the appointing union. Any exclusive bargaining representative will be allowed to negotiate their own benefit plan thus allowing employees to have a greater say in plan choice and how premium dollars are spent. If passed, this legislation would return to employees a greater voice in establishing health care benefits with greater protections for plan beneficiaries who will no longer be subject to the vagaries of the Governor or employers.