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The County's Proposal: Serious Takebacks for our Union Rights, Pay, and Benefits

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The County’s proposals made on 5/21/2018 represent serious take backs for our union rights, pay, and benefits.

    1. Attacks on Our Compensation and Benefits:

      1. Reduce Steps

      2. Increase Health Insurance Costs- no details yet

      3. Eliminate Occasional Bilingual Pay

      4. Eliminate In-charge pay for OSII’s at Library

      5. Remove funeral leave from contract

      6. Eliminate certain shift differentials for workers in Sheriff’s Office

    2. Roll Back to our Rights as Workers:

      1. Decrease time on layoff list from 3 years to 1.

        The County wants to decrease the time we can come back to work after a layoff.

      2. Deny workers ability to permanently remove written reprimands from HR file.

      3. Remove Step 1 of Grievance Procedure.

        Workers currently have 4 opportunities (4 steps) to appeal discipline. The more steps the more time and resources the County must invest to upholding discipline. Step 1 deters the employer from arbitrarily disciplining workers.

    3. Create Divisions Between Workers by limiting rights of New Hires: 

      1. Remove length of probationary period from contract

        That means County could make probationary period longer for new hires.

      2. Eliminate Vacation/Sick time for new workers.

         The County wants everyone to move to PTO because the days you accrue are less.

      3. Eliminate Health Care Savings Lump Sum (based on years of service) Contribution to new hires

    4. Interfere in Union Business

      1. Limit number of stewards from a geographic area.

        The Employer has no right to decide who can and cannot be a steward for our union.

      2. Require pre-approval from Employer to use interoffice mail, deny use of County systems if they think the union’s message reflects negatively on County.

        This measure is an attempt to police the content of our newsletters and other forms of communication with members. We have the right to disagree with the County and the right to freely express our concerns

      3. County would like a measure to be able to remove workers from union activity. 

        This is an attempt to punish workers the County disagrees with. This language is their attempt to get around labor law that prohibits the employer from disciplining a worker for union activity.

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