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Contract Still in Effect

Negotiations Continue, Terms of Expired Contract Remain in Force (The APC Advocate, Fall 2003)

The APC/CSU contract expired on June 30, 2003. But it’s still in effect. How can that be? Because California statute provides that as long as negotiations are continuing for a successor contract, the employer is obligated to maintain the terms of the expired contract.

The two notable exceptions to this are legal provisions that aren’t superseded by our contract:

1. Overtime earned starting July 1 must be compensated monetarily. Federal law precludes the CSU from giving employees CTO for this time.
   
   
2. Grievances filed after June 30 are not subject to binding arbitration. But CSU unions have virtually always been successful in addressing this in their new contracts, so that these grievances ultimately can be taken to arbitration if necessary.

So other than these two exceptions, our contract is still in effect. And APC isn’t relenting one bit in our efforts to enforce the terms of that contract on behalf of everyone in Unit 4!

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