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Our Unit 11 bargaining team signed an important Tentative Agreement (TA) on Monday, August 5, 2019, that “rolled-over” a current contract provision, allowing Unit 11 workers to receive reimbursement for the cost of professional certification or registration. Our Unit...

Our Unit 11 bargaining team continued working to close out the remaining unit-specific proposals with state negotiators on Wednesday as they continued making progress toward securing a new contract with the state. “Today’s tentative agreements (TAs) preserve and...

Unit 11 Signs 10 Tentative Agreements; Closes Unit Table on all Non-Economic Issues On Friday, August 16, Local 1000’s Unit 11 bargaining team signed 10 roll-over provisions from the current contract that protected past victories on a number of differentials. These...

Our Unit 11 bargaining team continued their negotiations with the state and on Wednesday, August 21, reached tentative agreements (TA) on several issues. “Our work today recognizes the professional status of Unit 11 members,” said Brad Willis, Unit 11 bargaining...

Our Unit 11 bargaining team went to the table today eager to continue productive negotiations after securing a big win at the master table last night regarding the upkeep of state housing.  You can read more about that victory here. Our Unit 11 bargaining team...

Our team reached tentative agreement with the state to preserve more than 20 existing contractual protections impacting our Unit 11 members. We also discussed some of the many economic and classification proposals that we put on the table. However, state negotiators...

After a month of working through the themes of working conditions, health and safety, leaves and professional development, your bargaining team spent this week focusing on issues of compensation. In addition to asking for a 22 percent across-the-board raise for all...

Your Unit 11 bargaining team returned to negotiations with the state today, and our discussions focused on making sure the state understands the important work our unit members do and their rights under the contract. We gave a presentation to the state about the...

Unit 11’s bargaining team went to the table today to press the state on issues of properly compensating and classifying the highly-skilled workers in our membership. We gave the state three proposals today: Unit 11’s bargaining team went to the table today to press...

Our Unit 11 bargaining team went to the table today to continue to press the state to compensate our members for their skills and experience. We gave the state five proposals that recognize that the work performed by Unit 11 requires specialized knowledge and often...