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Contract Negotiations | AFSCME Local 2432
News and Notes on Contract Negotiations for AFSCME Local 2432
Contract Ratification Vote: Results!
admin : April 5, 2016 8:48 pm : Compensation Study, From the President, Important, Interesting, Members, Negotiations, News
The vote to ratify all three AFSCME contracts passed overwhelmingly and is headed to the City Commission for a vote tomorrow (Wednesday, 4/6) @ 1PM at City Hall. Thanks to all who’ve worked hard during this process and to everyone who came out for the vote today.
Come by the Commission Chambers tomorrow @ 1PM in your AFSCME green as a show of solidarity if you can and thanks again to our members for your continued support.
Comments are closed	Ratification Vote! Tuesday, April 5, 2016
admin : March 30, 2016 11:05 pm : Compensation Study, From the President, Important, Interesting, Members, Negotiations
The contract negotiations have finally been completed. A ratification vote will be held on next Tuesday April 5th 2016 from 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM at the Union Hall – 2734 Hollywood Boulevard (parking in the rear). This is a secret ballot vote and the ballots will be counted immediately after the closing of the vote. All employees should receive their letter explaining their classification and wage changes based on the Evergreen implementation by this coming Friday April 1st 2016. Below is the bargained contract language changes; please review them prior to casting your vote on April 5th 2016:
Below are the new job classifications and pay grades:
A brief summary of the changes can be found here:
Our union’s bargaining team has fought long and hard on your behalf with the City to get fair contracts to bring back to you for ratification. Although we all know that no contract is ever perfect, we believe that the proposed agreements have us heading back in the right direction for restoring our rights, pay and benefits, toward where they were before the cutbacks we all endured as a consequence of financial urgency.
We hope you will agree that these agreements are fair, that they will move our union forward, and that they deserve your vote for ratification.
Comments are closed	Contract Ratification Update
admin : March 25, 2016 6:23 am : Compensation Study, From the President, Important, Members, Negotiations
Local 2432 Brothers and Sisters,
Below are highlights from the new contract which we’ll be bringing to you for a ratification vote soon:
The Evergreen Study will be implemented for all three bargaining units which merges pay grades (no more General/Enterprise/Tier A/Tier B). Employees have started receiving letters explaining their individual classification change and wage info. All employees should receive their letter within the next week.
1.5% Merit Increase
1% Wage Increase
0.5% additional wage increase if Pension funding meets threshold
30 years and out for those covered under the new normal retirement date calculation. An employee would have had to work until age 60 regardless of when hired (example: 20 year old currently has to work 40 years to retire)
No employee premium increase, FSA card was increased (ratified December 2015)
No health insurance coverage in retirement for employees hired after ratification
We are working towards a ratification date of April 5, 2016. The proposed contracts will be posted on the website very soon for members to review. Comments are closed	NEGOTIATION UPDATE AND PENSION BOARD ELECTION
admin : February 3, 2016 10:15 pm : Compensation Study, From the President, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Ratification Vote Results: Flexible Spending Account Increase
admin : December 23, 2015 8:57 pm : From the President, Important, Interesting, Members, Negotiations
The FSA increase M.O.U. was passed by all three bargaining units. Thanks to all who came out to vote and ratify this benefit increase.
Have a happy and safe holiday and stay tuned for pictures from the holiday party!
Comments are closed	**Updated** Ratification Vote for increase in Flexibal Spending Account (FSA) – Tuesday, Dec. 22nd
admin : December 15, 2015 11:50 pm : From the President, Important, Interesting, Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Status of Contract Negotiations
admin : October 13, 2015 2:50 pm : From the President, Members, Negotiations, News
Comments are closed	Local 2432 Update – Evergreen, Negotiations, and more
admin : August 30, 2015 10:57 am : Elections, From the President, Important, Interesting, Members, Negotiations, News, Political
Comments are closed	MOU and a Ratification Vote
admin : July 1, 2014 10:25 am : Elections, Important, Members, Negotiations
During the latest contract negotiations, Local 2432 and the City negotiated many new benefits for part-time employees. One of those benefits entailed the City contributing $1,000 on behalf of each eligible part-time employee to a 457 Plan. Unfortunately, given the length of negotiations, some eligible employees, whose anniversaries fell between October 1, 2013 and the ratification date of the current contract (plus the 60 day waiting period), will miss out on receiving that $1,000 contribution until their next anniversary date.
This M.O.U. corrects that unintended result by changing the effective date for those regularly scheduled part-time employees (as defined in Section 2 and Section 3 of Article 52) employed as a regularly scheduled part-time employee on the ratification date of this M.O.U., so that the City shall make the new $1,000 contribution to the 457 Deferred-Comp Plan of those regularly scheduled part-time employees who had an anniversary date that occurred on or after October 1, 2013, through May 4, 2014, within thirty (30) days of the ratification date of this M.O.U. which you are voting on.
This change requires a ratification vote from the members.
Voting begins Tuesday, July 8, at 7:30 am and goes until 5:30 pm at the Union Hall. This a secret ballot vote and the ballots will be counted immediately after the closing of the vote.
Comments are closed	Updated Contracts
admin : April 2, 2014 8:00 am : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Ratification Vote – Tuesday Feb 4
admin : January 30, 2014 1:30 pm : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Contracts!
admin : January 30, 2014 8:30 am : Important, Interesting, Negotiations
This version includes the markup of all changes. Professional
This version includes the markup of all changes. Supervisory
This version includes the markup of all changes. Edited – links are fixed and go to correct contracts.
Comments are closed	Contract Negotiations
admin : January 16, 2014 8:00 am : Members, Negotiations
Tuesday, January 21st, 10:00 am
Comments are closed	Contract Update – Back to the table
admin : January 15, 2014 11:45 am : Members, Negotiations
Yes, we are going back to the Negotiation table. The reason specifically is some language the City insists be included in the contract:
Sec. __. The Union agrees for itself and for all bargaining unit employees to waive, renounce, and forgo any and all remedies and payments whatsoever related to the modifications to the Collective Bargaining Agreement or the Pension Ordinance made by the City pursuant to financial urgency to which it or they are or may become eligible to receive, whether resulting from an award by a tribunal or through settlement of any matter related to such changes. The Union also agrees to withdraw with prejudice immediately all grievances related to such changes.
This will be in the articles regarding Pensions, in the General CBA that would be Article 18.
Two specific points for your consideration:
The Fiscal Urgency and all the related legal bits have all been settled and none of them in our favor. We don’t have any standing for more law suits of any kind regarding the FU.
This waiver language was not included in the negotiations at any point, nor was it implied it would be included because it was never mentioned. At all.
If you need more details, talk to your Steward and they can help. If they can’t, they at least know who to ask.
Comments are closed	Contract Update
admin : January 14, 2014 9:00 am : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Proposed Contract – Update
admin : January 7, 2014 4:30 pm : From the Chief Steward, Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Meetings and Meetings
admin : December 17, 2013 1:55 pm : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Draft Contract, General CBA
admin : December 12, 2013 11:30 am : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Waiting…. still…. again….
admin : December 10, 2013 5:50 pm : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Success! We have a contract!
admin : December 3, 2013 9:45 am : Important, Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Last night and the contract…
admin : November 20, 2013 7:30 am : Members, Negotiations, News
Comments are closed	Contract Negotiations – City’s Latest….
admin : November 6, 2013 9:00 am : Negotiations
Comments are closed	We don’t want to….
admin : November 4, 2013 2:31 pm : Negotiations
Comments are closed	Contract Negotations
admin : October 29, 2013 1:00 pm : Important, Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Not yet…. Still waiting….
admin : October 23, 2013 8:00 am : Negotiations
No, we don’t know what anybody’s ‘getting’ because we are still at the negotiation table.
No, we haven’t finished negotiating because we are waiting on the City to get back to us on the latest contract offer.
Ask the City Manager, she is the one that is directing the City’s Negotiation Team.
The City Manager is also the one who hasn’t attended a single meeting yet so maybe you shouldn’t ask her… she might not actually know what’s going on.
Comments are closed	Equitable
admin : October 17, 2013 8:00 am : Interesting, Negotiations
eq·ui·ta·ble (ˈekwitəbəl), adjective
1. fair and impartial.
synonyms: fair, just, impartial, even-handed, unbiased, unprejudiced
The City keeps saying they want equity in all the different CBA’s but when they make their offer it always seems as if they are trying to bring everyone down to the lowest possible level, that everyone has to lose something.
Well, the City gains everything we lose so I guess on a cosmic level it is equitable.
Comments are closed	How do we stack up?
admin : October 15, 2013 7:22 pm : Negotiations
At tonight’s meeting we had on display a little comparison of AFSCME’s current contract offer compared to PBA and IAFF. Here is what it looked like, more or less….
2 Year CBA
Wages yr 1/yr 2
11.5 ~ 24.5%
12 ~ 14%
0/2.5%
Yes/2%
Slotted and 1.5%
Yes-Slotted
2.5% ~ 8% No DROP No Dependant Health
2.5%~8% No DROP
3% and DROP
3.3% an DROP and Dependent Health
$40 Copay and $55 Biweekly
FSA Card E/E+1/E+2
$200/$300/$500
Health Holidays Vacation Sick 457 This is not everything on the negotiation table, just the stuff that is most important.
Watch this space, more as it is available.
10:30 pm Edited to make the table a bit easier to read
Comments are closed	Merit
admin : October 15, 2013 11:45 am : Negotiations
mer·it (ˈmerit), noun
1. the quality of being particularly good or worthy, esp. so as to deserve praise or reward.
synonyms: excellence, quality, caliber, worth
The City used to have a system of Merit in the pay scales. The better you do at your job the more you get paid. It would seem that mediocrity is the new standard our leaders are aiming for because they no longer want a merit based pay scale.
Join us at tonight’s regular monthly meeting and share your opinion…. is a Merit System important to you? Or is a simple raise every two years regardless of performance a better idea?
Comments are closed	One year, or two?
admin : October 14, 2013 1:24 pm : Negotiations
What do you think… One year contract or two?
Let’s see what the City has to say today at negotiations.
Please join us if you can, 2:30 p.m. at City Hall.
admin : October 11, 2013 4:30 pm : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Bargain
admin : October 10, 2013 8:00 am : Interesting, Negotiations
bar·gain (ˈbärgən), verb
1. negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.
You can’t really negotiate a deal for pay and benefits if the City is unwilling to bargain in any meaningful way. Saying you are trying to bargain a deal is not the same as actually sitting down and bargaining a deal.
Comments are closed	Deal
admin : October 9, 2013 1:37 pm : Negotiations
deal (dēl), noun
1. an agreement entered into by two or more parties for their mutual benefit, esp. in a business or political context..
The key word is “mutual.”
You can’t really reach a deal regarding pay and benefits if the City is demanding all the benefits.
Comments are closed	Compromise
admin : October 8, 2013 8:00 am : Negotiations
com·pro·mise (kämprəˌmīz), noun
Sometimes it is called the “Middle Ground.”
And in dealing with the City this area in the middle seems kind of lonely. We’ve been waiting around here in the middle but the City is nowhere to be found.
Comments are closed	Negotiation Meeting Followup
admin : September 25, 2013 9:06 am : Members, Negotiations
Thank you to everyone who took the time to join us in the audience. It makes a difference when Management sees a bunch of members taking part in the process.
And then, the meeting….
The meeting got off to a late start and most of the meeting was us presenting our current contract offerings to them. The highlights of our current proposal are:
Wages – Oct 1 we get a 6% to Enterprise Funded Employees, 9% to General Funded Employees. Next year 4% and 6%. Over the two years that would bring everyone back up in the pay scales to where they would have been if the City didn’t take anything back during F.U.
Pension – Everyone hired before July 2009 will go to a 2.75% multiplier (27 years for full benefits) with an 8% contribution. Everyone hired after July 2009 goes back to the 2.5% multiplier with the 9% contribution.
Health – Switching everyone to a $30 co-pay plus accepting the City’s offer of the Flexible Spending Account in the amount of $200 for you, $300 for you plus 1, $500 for you plus 2.
Those are the most important items of our proposal, the ones that everyone wants to know right now. There were many more items in our offer that will be under discussion and we will share them with you soon.
Comments are closed	Negotiations today
admin : September 24, 2013 12:07 pm : Members, Negotiations
admin : September 20, 2013 8:30 am : Members, Negotiations, News
Comments are closed	E911 Update
admin : September 19, 2013 1:14 pm : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Call to Action – Second Budget Hearing
admin : September 19, 2013 9:45 am : Negotiations
Show your solidarity! Wear your green! Comments are closed	Contracts, Budgets, and Presentations….
CK : September 13, 2013 10:00 am : Members, Negotiations, News
Comments are closed	Another Sea of Green
CK : September 13, 2013 8:17 am : Members, Negotiations
Comments are closed	Contract Negotitiations – Updated
CK : September 12, 2013 2:21 pm : Negotiations, News
First, thank you to everyone who made it out to watch this mornings meeting. It wasn’t the most exciting of meetings, but you did get to see first hand how absolutely crappy Management is trying to treat the AFSCME employees.
Yesterday we shared the General Contract Proposal. Today we have the Professional and Supervisory Proposals to share.
AFSCME General – City Proposal 09-10-2013
AFSCME Professional City Proposal 09-10-2013
AFSCME Supervisory – City Proposal 09-10-2013
Both are in PDF format, it is best if you right-click and choose save-as.
We will have a lot more updates over the next day or three as we continue to evaluate and discuss what the City is offering for our contracts.
Tonight at 5:30 is the First Public Budget Hearing. If you can make it please wear your green and ‘remind’ the Commissioners and, more importantly, the Public that we are here and we are professionals and we are tired of being treated like an ATM.
Comments are closed	Proposed Contract
CK : September 11, 2013 3:14 pm : Important, Negotiations
Finally! The City has made their first formal offer of the AFSCME Contracts. Well, at least for the General Employees we have something in writing.
Keep coming back to this article throughout today and tomorrow, as we go through and figure out what the City is offering we will update it here.
And don’t forget…. tomorrow, Thursday Sept 12th, the negotiation meetings begin at 9:00 a.m. in room 215. You are welcome to sit in the audience, no that’s not quite right… You are encouraged! to sit in the audience and see first hand what the City is offering as they offer it.
Article 10 – Wages:
Starting October 2013, 2.5% for everyone.
Starting April 2014, 3% for all non-enterprise funded employees.
AND in April 2014, a possible wage re-opener.
For the year, 2.5% for enterprise employees, 4% for everyone else, with chance of having the wages dropped again in April because of the re-opener.
Edit – Sorry for the confusion…. the proposal includes a 3% starting in April, which is effectively 1.5% because it is only for 6 months. 2.5% and then effectively 1.5% makes 4% for the year. The following year it works out as 5.5%.
Article 11 – Assignment Pay:
Assignment pay will no longer be available for any period of work less than 40 hours.
You will only be eligible for Assignment pay if you work MORE than 40 hours. That means if you cover for your boss for only a week you get nothing in return for working in the higher responsibility level.
Third Item of Interest:
Article 17 – Performance Review:
Probationary periods are increasing to 12 months. The two possible outcomes of any review is Unsatisfactory or Satisfactory. Part-timers probationary period is expanding to 2080 hours.
If you are a part-timer it will be twice as long before you are eligible for any benefits. And there are NO MERIT INCREASES! Ever! You do your job, you pass or fail, and maybe if your boss likes you they can give you a raise. If they feel like it or something. So much for the Pay-for-Performance idea the City was promoting to improve our City for our residents.
Fourth Item of Interest:
Article 21 – Voting Time:
No leaving early or arriving late to cast your vote in elections.
Fifth Item of Interest:
Article 24 – Life and Health Insurance:
This one has a lot of If-Then-Before-After Clauses so it will be best to be addressed in its own topic. The very short version is Everyone’s Co-Pays will be $40, the amount your insurance costs you is going up, and Hearing and Vision are gone.
More expensive insurance with less coverage. Some comments regarding the Affordable Care Act, more commonly called Obama-Care, that will be addressed by those more knowledgeable than me.
Sixth Item of Interest:
Article 36 – Anniversary Milestones (Formerly Longevity):
Again with some if-then-before-after clauses…. At the 5 year mark you get a one-time check for $500. At the 10 year mark you get a one-time check for $1,000. At the 15 Year mark you get 5% raise. At the 20 Year mark you get a 3% raise.
You make it to the five-year mark, here’s a check. Make it five more years and here’s another check. While being handed $1,000 is pretty cool, it really pales in comparison to what the 5% raise would have been over the course of a year for most employees. In other words, here’s a nice token of our appreciation for working so hard for so long, don’t spend it all in one place kid.
Seventh Item of Interest:
Article 51 – Volunteer Day:
A pilot program allowing you take one paid day per year and volunteer somewhere approved by the City.
Volunteering for the community is a good thing. Getting paid by the City to volunteer? Kind of makes it not volunteering, doesn’t it? And this isn’t going to apply to everyone because most volunteer opportunities are during the day when some of our shift-workers are trying to sleep. Meh.
And lastly, for today at least, here is the PDF version of the City’s Proposed Contract: AFSCME General – City Proposal 09-10-2013 (best to right-click and save as)
Comments are closed	Negotiation Dates!
CK : September 10, 2013 11:15 am : Negotiations
We have dates for the next meeting to negotiate our contracts!
If you can get away from your post for a few minutes and would like to see first hand what happens in these meetings please join us in the Commissioners Conference Room (215, the small room behind the Commissioner Chambers) starting at 9:00 a.m. All three contracts will be under discussion so the meeting will last most of the day.
Please wear your green and join us in the Commission Chambers Thursday at 5:30 for the first public Budget Hearing. Lets remind the Commissioners, Management, and most importantly the public, that we are here and won’t be ignored.
Comments are closed	A Call To Action!
CK : August 30, 2013 3:53 pm : Important, Members, Negotiations, News
Comments are closed	Negotiations, Round 2
CK : August 1, 2013 8:40 am : Important, Negotiations, News
As many of you are aware we are meeting with the City for Round 2 of negotiations. Yesterday was the meeting for the General Unit CBA, today for the Professional and Supervisory Unit CBA’s.
Yesterday’s meeting can best be described as weak. The City did not have actual written proposals to present, no numbers, in short the meeting could have been concluded in 10 minutes, nine of which would be checking the calendar for the next available date.
Comments are closed	Unfair Labor Practice – Update
Chris Cassidy : July 18, 2013 6:00 am : From the President, Important, Interesting, Members, Negotiations, News, Political
I hope this clarifies why the ULP was filed and why you were not given a heads up in our last meeting.
Comments are closed	It has been brought to our attention…..
Chris Cassidy : July 17, 2013 5:00 pm : From the President, Important, Interesting, Members, Negotiations, News, Political
Comments are closed	Contract Updates – Part 5
CK : June 25, 2013 8:00 am : Interesting, Negotiations
Still waiting on Management to set some dates for the next round of contract talks. While we wait here are some of the highlights of our proposal to management….
Remember, this is what we proposed to Management. This is what we are asking to get, negotiations have to have a starting point.
Part 5 – General CBA – Article 49, Educational Reimbursement Program
“Upon ratification of this agreement the tuition reimbursement program which was eliminated effective October 1, 2011, shall be restored.”
Pretty much sums itself up…. put the program back and allow us the opportunity to improve ourselves so we can improve the City.
Comments are closed	Contract Update – Media Wars
CK : June 24, 2013 6:08 pm : Interesting, Members, Negotiations, News
Comments are closed	Contract Updates – Part 4
CK : June 24, 2013 8:00 am : Interesting, Negotiations
Part 4 – General CBA – Article 26, Work Rules
“Any work rule(s) and/or regulation(s) that is not complied with or adhered to by Management employees shall not be enforced upon bargaining unit employees…”
Basically, if you aren’t following the rules you can’t write me up for not following the rules.
Comments are closed	Contract Updates – Part 3
CK : June 21, 2013 8:00 am : Interesting, Negotiations
Part 3 – General CBA – Article 24, Health Group Benefits Plan
“Employees co-pay will be reinstated to $20.00”
The Co-pay seems like such a small thing, but those of you with small children or chronic ailments…. that extra $20 adds up.
Comments are closed	Contract Updates – Part 2
CK : June 20, 2013 8:00 am : Interesting, Negotiations
Part 2 – General CBA – Article 17, Review and Merit Pay Increases
“Upon ratification of this Agreement, the City hall retroactively reinstate merit pay increases to all employees who had the eliminated effective October 1, 20112, through financial urgency imposition as well as merit pay increases to those employees who had them eliminated through the 2012 contract re-opener…”
Basically, give us our money back. And if you lost, or missed a merit increase during FU it will be reinstated.
Comments are closed	Contract Updates – Part 1
CK : June 19, 2013 8:00 am : Interesting, Negotiations
While we wait on Management to set some dates for the next round of contract talks we thought we would share some of the highlights of our proposal to management…. There are many highlights and we don’t know how long we have to wait so let’s do this in parts.
Part 1 – General CBA – Article 10, Wages
“Upon ratification of the agreement, the City shall retroactively reinstate all wages the City suspended and eliminated because of its claimed financial urgency as well as wages decreased via the wage reopener in the 2010 MOU…”
Very simply… give us our money back.
Comments are closed	And that concludes Round 1, Part 2
CK : June 12, 2013 8:22 am : Negotiations, News
And that concludes Round 2 for our Contract Negotiations…..
This second round of meetings from the last couple of days… done. The City has our proposals and they are best summed up as reinstatement of our benefits to the levels they were at before the City declared F.U..
That is the simple answer, there is obviously much more to it than just simply give us our money back. We will put together some posts with more information while we are waiting on the City to schedule the next round of talks.
Comments are closed	Round 2
admin : June 3, 2013 6:00 am : Negotiations, News
Round Two of the contract negotiations begin this week, starting with the General Unit on Thursday, Followed by the Professional and Supervisory Units next week.
These meetings are open to the public and you are encouraged to attend. It makes our position that much stronger when we have a group of our members in the audience.
Join us if you can and wear green. Watch this space for more details if you can’t.
General Unit- Thursday, June 6 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm
Supervisory Unit- Monday, June 10th from 2:00 to 5:00 pm
Professional Unit- Tuesday, June 11th from 1:00 to 5:00 pm.
All three meetings will be in the Commissioners Conference Room, 2nd floor of City Hall, Room 215.
Comments are closed	And that concludes Round 1
admin : May 31, 2013 3:35 pm : Negotiations, News
And that concludes Round 1 for our Contract Negotiations…..
This first round of meetings this week were simply the opening round of negotiations; we put forward our proposal to the City for the General, Professional, and Supervisory Contacts.
Watch this space over the next several days as we will be sharing much more information about our proposal, what the City counter-offers, meeting dates, and much much more.
Comments are closed	Game on!
admin : May 29, 2013 4:00 pm : Important, Negotiations, News, Political
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