Contact ELR

How To Contact ELR

  • Effective immediately, you must open an ELR HR Service Hub ticket and no longer send emails to the ELR teams.

  • In the appropriate Employee Relations request form, enter all the information that would typically be included in an email into the case description. 

    • Include ALL the relevant information, attachments, etc. to help the ELR Consultant start the case immediately instead of just putting in a sentence or two and expecting a response. 

  • If there is no response in a couple of days, please do NOT open a new case or send an email, just make a comment in the existing case to check-in.

  • Those already working specifically with an ELR Consultant on an ELR matter before 7/1/24 should continue to email that Consultant directly.

  • When ELR sends an email from an HR Service Hub case, please “reply all” to that email - it will be logged in the case, and the ELR Consultant will be notified. 

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Employee and Labor Relations (ELR) is divided into three teams to help better serve Berkeley and its employees. Each team consists of Employee and Labor Relations Consultants who each have the ability to assist with labor or employee relations concerns, questions, or issues.

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Team Addison

ELR Consultants:

Jasmine Bermudez
Samantha Chavez
Rose Rouille

Regions:

ProS
SHARE

Contracts (Unions):

BR – Graduate Student Researchers (UAW 2865)
BX – Academic Student Employees (UAW 2865)
IX – Non-Senate Instructional (UC-AFT)
LX – Professional Librarians (UC-AFT)
PX – Postdoctoral Scholars (UAW 5810)
RA – Academic Researches Unit (UAW 5810)

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Team Bancroft

ELR Consultants

Shawntá Bailey
Bianca Bowman-Waugh
Chi-Chi Chukwu
Agata Drygas-Andryszewski

Regions:

BEST
Cal Performances

Contract (Unions):

CX – Clerical & Allied Services (Teamsters 2010)
GS – Printing Trades (Teamsters DC 2)
HX – Health Care Professional (UPTE)
PA – Police Officers (FUPOA)
RX – Research Support Professional (UPTE)
TX – Technical (UPTE)

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Team Oxford

ELR Consultants

Ryker Hittner
Corinne Lopez-Allen
Jacquie Mosley-Pastrana
Nicole Roces
Kyle Tomlinson

Regions:

BEARS
ERSO
International House

Contract (Unions):

DX – Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists (UAPD)
EX – Patient Care Technical (AFSCME)
KB – Skilled Crafts (ACBCTC)
NX – Registered Nurses (CNA)
SX – Service Unit (AFSCME)

ELR Leadership

Carrie Ann Colton
Director, Employee and Labor Relations
cacolton@berkeley.edu

Patricia Cano
Assistant Director (ELR), Academic Labor Relations and Abusive Conduct
pcano@berkeley.edu

ELR Special Assignments

Caroline Purtell
ELR Administrative Assistant
hradmin_elr@berkeley.edu

Alison Lihalakha 
ELR Administrative Assistant
alihalakha@berkeley.edu

Cedar Carlton
Complaint Resolution Specialist
cedar.carlton@berkeley.edu

Courtney Foster
ELR Consultant
courtney.foster@berkeley.edu