What is a Collective Bargaining Unit (CBU)?
Under HEERA, a collective bargaining unit is a group of titles with a sufficient “community of interest” that a union can reasonably represent as a unit- particularly in the negotiation of employees’ terms and conditions of employment. HEERA provides that, with some exceptions, collective bargaining units at the University are organized into systemwide units. This means that all employees in a specific collective bargaining unit, across all the UC campuses, are considered to be one unit. Other units (Skilled Crafts units for example) are considered a local, single campus unit.
