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Newark Teachers Union

New Jersey Citizen Action Oil Group

January 21, 2016

Jeanette Page-Hawkins, Director

Essex County Division of Welfare

18 Rector Street, Floor 9

Newark, NJ, 07102

Re: Step II Class Action Contractual Grievance

Security and Confidentiality Agreement

Article I. Purpose

Article VII. Discipline

Article XXV. Non-Discrimination

Article XXX. Work Distribution and Practices

Article XLIX. Safety of Staff

Dear Ms. Page-Hawkins:

CWA Local 1081 submits this Step II Class Action Contractual Grievance on behalf of all of our applicable Union’s members to protest the attached Security and Confidentiality Agreement and the liability threatened our Union’s members therein were they to violate the tenets of the mandatory Agreement they have been compelled to sign as exemplified by the attached memorandum of January 14, 2016 written the Family Service Supervisors of the Downtown Citizen Services Center entitled “ASOS Access”:

1. Were our applicable members to step away from their assigned work booths, such as for their contractually-stipulated fifteen-minute break and forty-five minute lunch break, to meet with management and/or to escort their clients from the reception area to their respective work booths, anyone may access their assigned agency computer and telephone.

2. As per the content of the above cited Agreement, within the next-to-last paragraph of page number two, it is stipulated “I understand that, in the event that I fail to observe any of the above-stated security and confidentiality procedures, any and all levels of access to the workforce development system(s) may be denied to me. Other disciplinary action is possible. Serious breaches of security may also result in criminal action against the involved individual(s)”.

3. Inasmuch as the management of the Essex County Division of Welfare has been monitoring our members’ agency emails, computer sites access, telephone usage and voicemail, anyone other than they may surreptitiously utilize their assigned computer and telephone and thus expose our members to the adverse actions delineated within the Agreement.

The resolution CWA Local 1081 respectfully demands to this grievance consists of the following:

1. Until our Union’s concerns for our applicable members’ exposure to inequitable and unwarranted disciplinary and/or legal liability have been addressed, the County shall cease compelling our members to sign the Agreement and not hold responsible those whom have already signed the Agreement.

2. Until our Union’s concerns for our applicable members’ exposure to inequitable and unwarranted disciplinary and/or legal liability have been addressed, the County shall hold harmless any of our members whose computer and/or telephone have been compromised sans their knowledge.

We seek a hearing in this regard.

Sincerely,

David H. Weiner, President