Your elected Bargaining Team has met multiple times with management, and is making every effort to negotiate a strong new contract before it expires on June 30. Our priorities include: protecting City jobs; getting our members through the current financial crisis with no layoffs, no cuts, no contract giveaways and an end to contracting out; and increasing protections for our Temporary Part-Time workers.

So far we have given the City more than a dozen proposals, and gotten only five back from them. June 17 was the last day for new proposals. We are waiting for responses to many of our proposals and expect the City to have a lot for us at our next bargaining session on June 24.

Proposal Breakdown 

• One-year contract extension with no layoffs and the possibility of COLAs if the City’s finances improve
• Reduce contracting out and protect City jobs 
• Strengthen layoff protections and severance
• Bring the City’s administrative instructions and standard operating procedure language into our grievance process
• Improve acting and premium pay provisions for TPT workers
• Bring comp time cap up to 240 hours for all workers (currently most are capped at 72)
• Get more workers an allowance for safety shoes
• Improve administrative review and admin leave for our members—and more!