Bargaining proposal summary
Our bargaining team is awaiting a response from the governor's negotiators after delivering a comprehensive counterproposal for settlement on Tues., July 27. Our counterproposal was necessary after the state failed to address any of the key issues in our original settlement proposal.
Our counterproposal addresses seven key issues including salaries, the personal leave program, pensions, holidays, overtime, the length of the agreement and retiree health benefits.
Our counterproposal addresses seven key issues including salaries, the personal leave program, pensions, holidays, overtime, the length of the agreement and retiree health benefits.
Negotiations are scheduled to resume on Thurs., Aug. 5.
Summary of Union Proposals
7.1 Holidays
11.1 Salaries
19.2 Overtime
24.2 Duration
Pre-Funding of Post Employment Health Benefits
Personal Leave Program (PLP) 2010
Retirement
Summary of Union Proposals
7.1 Holidays
- Employees will no longer have February 12 (Lincolns Birthday) or the second Monday in October (Columbus day) as paid holidays off, instead they will have two additional personal holidays.
- Employees working holidays will still receive premium pay.
11.1 Salaries
- All employees shall receive a COLA or 5% increase whichever is greater to their salaries July 1, 2012 and again June 30, 2015; this proposal does not impact seasonal clerks.
- Seasonal clerks shall receive a $0.50 raise per hour July 1, 2012 and again June 30, 2015.
19.2 Overtime
- Sick leave shall not count for the purposes of calculating a workweek leading to the payment of overtime.
24.2 Duration
- The contract shall be in effect July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2015
- The state and the union agree to support legislation for continuous appropriations for state workers salaries.
- No furloughs shall be implemented during the life of the contract.
Pre-Funding of Post Employment Health Benefits
- The State and the Union agree to begin prefunding post employment health care.
- This prefunding would begin on July 1, 2012 and require a .5% contribution from employees salary on a pretax basis.
- This contribution would go into a trust for post employment health care benefits.
Personal Leave Program (PLP) 2010
- All employees will accumulate one personal leave day (8 Hrs) per month until June 30, 2011, in exchange employee pay will be reduced by 4.62%.
- Employees will be allowed to use or bank this time until June 30, 2015.
- Approved personal leave may only be revoked twice, the third approval may not be revoked.
- Departments, at their discretion, may pay out accumulated PLP time.
- Employees may donate banked PLP time to other employee's catastrophic leave banks.
- PLP shall not affect benefits, create a break in state service or affect the calculation for retirement.
- This program does not impact seasonal employees.
- BU3 employees shall operate on a different accumulation of time due to their specialized schedules.
Retirement
- The state and union shall support legislation changing vesting from 5 to 10 years (for new employees); prevent pension spiking, and place fees on contractors that shall be paid into CalPERS.
- Current employees will maintain their current retirement formula.
- Employees hired after ratification of this agreement and after participating in the ARP. program shall be subject to the new retirement formula.