<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Jul 5, 2006, at 11:25 AM, John R. Granholm wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Is the CAUT committee going to consider only full-time university techs, or are you going to include people like me, who are part-timers?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Hi John,</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>With respect to developing a "CAUT Credential" we would hope to include all cauts, definitely including part time and "informal contract." With respect to a discussion of bidding issues, that pretty much concerns part timers only.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>We do definitely want to dispel the notion that the purpose of the caut committee is only for that tiny minority of full time employed techs. It was a group of full-time cauts who started the committee and initiated various activities, but we have been moving in the direction of trying to include everyone. One problem we run up against is lack of part time contract cauts who are willing to get involved. Current committee membership includes four full time employed, two half time employed, and two contract part time cauts.<BR><DIV><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV>Fred Sturm</DIV><DIV>University of New Mexico</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>