185 Agreement

ARTICLE 1 - PREAMBLE: STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES

The University recognizes the Union’s legal responsibility to act as the collective bargaining agent for the employees covered by this Agreement and its legal duty to provide fair representation to those employees.

The Union recognizes the University’s responsibilities to manage the Police Department and the University, as a whole, in an efficient, responsible manner.

The University and the Union realize that in order to provide maximum opportunities for continuing employment, job security, good, safe, healthy working conditions and good wages and benefits, the University must provide the highest quality services to the University community and its environs in a timely fashion, and otherwise be able to operate the University economically and competitively to meet the primary mission of the University by providing an excellent education to its students, of creating new knowledge, of being a dedicated member and leader in the local as well as world communities.

The University and the Union agree to work toward the attainment of these goals and towards the goal of mutual respect and trust for each other. The Union and the University agree to cooperate and support all efforts to assure that employees provide effort for a full day of work for a fair day’s pay, and that they will actively work to avoid absenteeism and any other practices which hurt or interfere with the operation and mission of the University.

Furthermore, the University and the Union desire to develop the employees into a skilled, versatile and effective workforce through training and education.

The Union and the University are dedicated to improving police services, providing for a safe environment, preserving equipment, preventing accidents and strengthening goodwill between the University and its employees, as well as the University’s students, faculty, administrators, other employees, affiliates, vendors, visitors and members of the community. The Union and the University further recognize that the University has certain obligations and responsibilities to its students, its faculty, its administrators, its other employees, its vendors, its visitors and the community and therefore the University and the Union agree that they will fully cooperate in the performance and discharge of these obligations and responsibilities.