May 2024 Minutes

APLE General Membership Meeting

    May 10, 2024, 6:30 p.m.

Sanger Branch 

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86846932317

Agenda

1. Officer Roll Call

• Teresa Alvarado

• Steve Nichols

• Carlye Seybold

• Sally Sherman-Weckerlin

• Michelle Eggert

• David Lutz

• Kim Fisher

• Morgan Rinckey

Emilio Ramirez, TAAP President, also attended

Call to order: 6:35

2. Officer Reports

   1. Chairs

      1. Richard T. Gosser Scholarship

         1. Melinda Lesniewicz’s daughter won the scholarship.

         2. The winner gets $10,000

         3. All UAW members who have children graduating from high school are eligible 

      2. Conferences

         1. Region 2B women’s conference is on Oct. 5-6

         2. Aug. 25-30 civil and human rights conference is on Aug. 25-30

         3. APLE can send 1 person to each 

         4. Member will get union release time and reimbursement

   2. Treasurer 

      1. APLE mentor lunches now have a $50 limit.

      2. $213.27 petty cash

   3. Trustees/Negotiators

      1. David Lutz: UAW, Region 2B Spring Conference: Technical, Office & Professional (TOP Council)

         1. Local is made up of APLE, TARTA, TAAP

         2. Council Objectives

            1. Coordinate activities of UAW Local Unions

            2. Clearing house of info

            3. Assist with organizing

         3. Spring conference items

            1. Organizational meeting

            2. Information exchange

            3. Election of Officers

            4. 3-year term

            5. David elected to sergeant at arms

            6. Next conference: Oct. 2024

      2. International meeting in Washington information

         1. There are 7 presidents in local area, 17,000 members

         2. Biggest growth in union is at colleges and universities. 

3. Old Business 

   1. APLE Election

      1. Election committee: Cindy Vanderbrink, Heidi Yeager, Melissa Luthman, Lindsey Stockdale, and Adrienne Amborski

      2. 50% of the ballots were returned 

      3. Election results:

         1. Co-chairs: Steve Nichols, Teresa Alvarado

         2. Secretary/Treasurer: Carlye Seybold

         3. Negotiators: Amy Hartman, David Lutz, Sally Sherman-Weckerlin

         4. Officers: Juliette Hebert, Tyra Jones, Morgan Rinckey 

   2. Safety

      1. APLE asked for data from PITS to see some safety trends at certain locations

   3. Staffing and subbing

      1. APLE staff getting pulled frequently

      2. APLE has had discussions with HR, Public Services and Jason about this issue

      3. No solutions were offered

      4. Full-time floating subs (part of APLE) were offered as idea to fill the gaps

      5. There are some HR subs: only 1 or 2 are picking up hours

      6. Andrea Francis will be joining labor management meetings with HR

      7. Paid lunches are occasionally being used to fill limited availability 

      8. Some specialists are being pulled because they are scheduled at certain times so they are available to be pulled to fill in

      9. Some people being pulled to cover off desk time for other librarians 

      10. Just 2 people (clerks or librarians) need to open and close a branch, some places want 2 librarians for safety reasons 

   4. Self-evaluation questions

      1. Concerns raised to HR about the evaluation

      2. HR and Public Services acknowledged it was not well done.

      3. Some people lost their first evaluation because it closed before they could be submitted.

      4. Managers also hadn’t done what they needed in Kronos which made it more complicated.

      5. Kronos is making the process more complicated

      6. Can we ask for copies of the questions next year?

   5. Reference Policy

      1. A draft was created by work group doing the reference training

      2. Initially going to be taken to board for a vote, should have come to us first

      3. Officers got a chance to look it over and correct it

      4. New draft looks better

4. New Business

   1. HR Assignment

      1. Sherryl Grauman will be on sick leave

      2. These HR personnel will be handling these areas:

         1. Jacey—recruitment, orientation, wellness

         2. Tom—leaves, labor relations, UKG/Kronos

         3. Rhonda—training, benefits, engagement

         4. Stacey and Kim—administrative support

   2. Ohio Ethics Law Reviews happening?

      1. Every year we are supposed to read through it. 

      2. All public employees in Ohio must read it annually 

      3. A good reminder to be mindful about what we can and can’t do as public workers

   3. Off Desk Time - Does everyone get enough?

      1. Inadequate for most of our librarians to get things done throughout the week

      2. At best, each librarian gets 1-2 hours off a day, but that doesn’t happen a lot. 

      3. No off-desk time Fridays or Saturdays

   4. Vehicle Accident Checklist

      1. Concerns about some of the things we are being asked to do

         1. We are asked to leave our cars at the scene of accident

         2. We are asked to take a cab to a hospital for drug test

         3. We need to call police, 

            1. Aren’t police trained to indicate if a person is on drugs or other substances? 

      2. They should send a unit from the library out to do all this

      3. Over the past few years we have a lot more policies being put into effect

      4. One employee was told they couldn’t carpool before or after work with other employees. 

   5. Technology Help

      1. 1-on-1 help by appointment; Jotform created

      2. A conversation about this happened at Adult Services meeting 

      3. Job description was changed to add technology help

      4. The library wanted to push more classes, but that was changed to 1-to-1

      5. APLE met with Allison Fiscus and Cathy Bartel in December about 1-to-1

      6. Some Children’s Librarians are doing these 1-on-1, but only Adult Librarian description has been changed

      7. What technology are we supposed to be able to teach people?

      8. There were no clear instructions given for how 1-to-1 is supposed to work

      9. Jotform lets you pick many different things to learn

         1. We only have 1 hour to teach patrons

      10. Allison said if we don’t know something, we should be able to learn it and teach patrons

      11. Can they change the wording in ACE from Outreach to Mobile Services for submitting stats?

      12. APLE will talk with HR and Andrea about the 1-on-1

      13. Youth librarians should reach out to APLE with concerns

      14. Mott is still offering classes

      15. Patrons should have a scheduled time, not just anytime they want

      16. Librarians sacrificing off-desk time to do these trainings 

5. Open Floor

   1. Accidents at work

      1. We need to take a cab to the hospital for drug test

      2. What is the threshold for the injury? 

         1. Do we need to do this for a papercut? 

   2. There will be a bond in the fall for building funds on the ballot

   3. Please come to Staff Awards

6. Adjourn: 8:05