Do union officials and stewards who are NMSU employees get paid time for union activities?
These employees referred to as “employee officials” are allowed to attend, on paid status, the following: 1) meetings requested by NMSU for purposes of administration of the union contract, to include Labor Management Committee meetings (Article 30), 2) investigatory interviews conducted by management as addressed in Article 23, 3) disciplinary hearings as addressed in Article 23, and 4) investigation and processing of grievances through the grievance and arbitration procedure, not to exceed a total of 4 hours (combined time) for each grievance. Employee officials shall obtain supervisory approval to attend such meetings and approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. Time spent on these activities is entered as work time on Banner and recorded on the NMSU “Time Tracking of Union Hours” form which can be obtained from the Labor Relations department. Mack Adams, Labor Relations Director, will maintain these records.
