WESTERN STATES OFFICE AND 

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES PENSION 

FUND

THIRD SUSPENSION APPLICATION

Exhibit 15 

(Part 6 of 11)

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COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

by and between

OFFICE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES

INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL #30, AFL/CIO

and

PLUMBERS LOCAL UNION 3

and

PLUMBERS JOINT APPRENTICESHIP

AND TRAINING COMMITTEE

July 1, 2016 

to and including 

May 31, 2019 

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ARTICLE 19 – CLASSIFICATION AND WAGES

19.1 Employees shall be paid the following minimum scale of wages:

First year increase $1.00 

Second year increase $1.00 

Third year increase $1.00 

 

Classification:

Administrative Assistant 1 (receptionist, light secretarial skills, file clerk, data entry,

computer program knowledge) 

Effective 

7/1/16 6/1/17 6/1/18

First 6 months $17.50 $18.50 $19.50 

Second 6 moths $22.50 $23.50 $24.50 

 

Administrative Assistant 2 (Administrative Asst. 1 skills plus light bookkeeping, and full 

applicable computer program knowledge) 

7/1/16 6/1/17 6/1/18 

$24.50 $25.50 $26.50

 

Administrative Assistant 3 (Office management skills, bookkeeping, full office skills)

7/1/16 6/1/17 6/1/18 

$26.50 $27.50 $28.50 

The Employer reserves the right to promote employees to the next percentage rate at any 

time. An Office Professional will not be kept at the 95% rate for any longer than a 

twelve (12) month period. 

19.2 Premium pay of six percent (6%) per week over the above rates shall be paid to 

supervisory employees. An employee who is being paid the 6% premium pay at 

the signing of this agreement will continue to receive the premium pay.

ARTICLE 20 – PENSION

20.1 The Employers agrees to contribute to the Western States Office and Professional

Employees Pension Fund, a contribution on behalf of each employee in the 

amount of two dollars and thirty cents ($2.30) per hours paid for employees of the 

Plumbers Apprenticeship. For employees of Plumbers Local 3, the contribution 

amount shall be two dollars and eighty cents ($2.80) per hours paid. The 

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employee(s), as a unit, may elect to put any amount of their negotiated wage rate 

into pension. 

20.2 The Employer contribution, as provided herein, shall be made on eligible 

employees on the effective date, except for the employees serving their thirty (30) 

day waiting period. The contributions for new employees shall start on the first of 

the month following the thirty (30) day waiting period. This shall apply to all 

employees not presently covered by another pension plan which is Employer paid. 

20.3 If an employee is injured on the job, the Employer shall continue to pay the 

required contribution for a period of three (3) months following the end of the 

month in which the injury occurs. 

20.4 Permanent employees who work seventy (70) or more hours per month shall be 

covered by the provisions of this Article. This shall not apply to extra help 

covering for vacation periods or sick leave which does not exceed thirty (30) 

days.

20.5 The Employer agrees to allow the employees to participate in the Office and 

Professional Employees International Union Local #30 Retirement Savings Plan 

(401K). The Employer agrees that if the employee chooses, they will withhold an 

employee contribution to the 401K plan. The employee may contribute up to, but 

no more than the amount limited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). All 

administrative fees shall be borne by the employee.

20.6 The Employer agrees to adopt the Western States Office and Professional 

Employees Pension Rehabilitation Plan and to contribute on behalf of each 

employee the contribution amount listed in the Updated Supplemental Employer 

Contribution Schedule, dated March 21, 2010, provided by the Trustees of 

Western State Office and Professional Employees Pension Fund. Should the 

Contribution Schedule change in any subsequent years, the Employer shall adopt 

the newest yearly schedule as presented by the Trustees of the Fund. If the Fund 

releases the Employer from the obligation to pay according to any Contribution 

Schedule, then the pension contribution shall be the amount contained in Article 

20.1. 

20.7 Effective January 1, 2010 it is hereby agreed between the Employer and the 

bargaining unit employees that for the year 2010 the Supplemental Contribution 

will be split 50-50. The employee portion will come from a deduction in their 

base hourly rate of pay listed in Article 19.1. In the future years, any required 

supplemental contribution to the Western States Office and Professional 

Employees Pension Fund will come from the employee’s yearly wage increase. If 

no wage increase is due, it shall come from a deduction in their base hourly rate 

of pay listed in Article 19.1. Every year the Employer will review their ability to 

pay a percentage of the increase and notify the Union. 

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WESTERN STATES OFFICE AND 

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES PENSION 

FUND

THIRD SUSPENSION APPLICATION

Exhibit 15 

(Part 7 of 11)

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Employer to be owed by the employee, from the final paycheck of any eligible 

employee.

24.3 Any change in the rate of dues and/or initiation fees levied by the Union will be 

put into effect in the deductions made by the Employer in the month following the 

month in which the Employer received written notice of the change from the 

Union. 

24.4 The Union agrees to file deduction assignments with the Employer for each 

employee prior to such deductions. 

24.5 The Employer shall deduct from the wages of any employee who submits a 

voluntary authorization card, an amount designated by such employee for 

OPEIU’s “J.B. Moss Voice of the Electorate” (VOTE) fund. Such deductions 

shall be made on the same date that employees receive their regular paychecks.

24.6 Voluntary contributions deducted from employee’s paychecks shall be made 

payable to the J.B. Moss Voice of the Electorate (VOTE) fund and forwarded 

monthly to the CFO of the Office and Professional Employees International 

Union, Local 30, AFL-CIO, 705 West Arrow Highway 2nd Floor, P.O. Box 9000, 

Claremont, CA 91711, along with a listing of the names of contributors and the 

amounts. 

ARTICLE 25 – TERM OF AGREEMENT

25.1 This Agreement shall be in full force and effect from the first (1st) day of July 

2016, to and including the thirty-first (31st) day of May 2019, and shall continue 

in full force and effect from year to year thereafter unless the Agreement is 

terminated or changed pursuant to the following conditions. 

a) If either party elects to terminate the Agreement, such party shall

on a date not less than sixty (60) days, nor more than seventy-five

(75) days prior to the anniversary date of the Agreement give

written notice to the other party of intention to terminate and by

such action, the Agreement shall for all purposes, terminate as of

the expiration date of the Agreement.

b) If either party elects to change any of the provisions of the

Agreement, such party shall on a date not less than sixty (60) days,

nor more than seventy-five (75) days prior to the anniversary date

of the agreement give written notice to the other party.

c) If either party is served with notices of desire to change or modify

this Agreement, negotiations must commence within fifteen (15)

days of such notice which may be extended by mutual agreement.

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