During the period of the PBSI program, CSEA stewards complained that some employees were not receiving evaluations. This turns out to be far from the case. Almost half the work force was not evaluated last year over 100 staff out of approximately 250 total employees in CSEA-represented bargaining units. It is obvious that the performance evaluation program was an invisible failure, like the Emperor s New Clothes, which no one wanted to admit. This puts the former PBSI program in an even worse light, considering the claims that the awards were based on measured performance.
Most campuses have embarrassing gaps in their programs.
That deadline has been extended to August, September, and now October because of non-compliance by administrators. CSEA is committed to working out the kinks in the program. Unlike PBSI, which was forced on employees in 1995, this program was negotiated. It is not perfect, but both sides want to make it work as well as possible and to improve it in future bargaining. The evaluation gap is the first hurdle we face.