Title
Collective Bargaining Agreement 2024-2027 with
Senior Water Systems Chemists Association
Body
Agenda of: June 26, 2024
Item No.: 2024- 214
Amount: N/A
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: June 8, 2024
RE: Collective Bargaining Agreement 2020- 2024 with
Senior Water Systems Chemists Association
MOTION
Upon recommendation of William M. Wolfson, Chief Administrative and Compliance Officer, and Jordie Kramer, Chief Organizational Development Officer, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), authorizes the GLWA's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to executive a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the Senior Water Systems Chemists Association for a term ending June 30, 2027; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
The Senior Water Systems Chemists Association (SWSCA) and GLWA were parties to a collective bargaining agreement covering the period from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2024. SWSCA and GLWA reached a tentative agreement on a CBA covering the period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027. SWSCA has since ratified the tentative agreement on that CBA.
JUSTIFICATION
The following aspects of the CBA are highlighted:
1. Holidays and Excused Time Off (PTO). The terms of the CBA with the SWSCA are largely consistent with the terms of its CBA which expires on June 30, 2024, however, retroactive to Martin Luther King Day 2024 the GLWA will align union members' compensation for holidays and excused time off to their scheduled hours. For example, a union member routinely scheduled to work eight-hour shifts will receive 8 hours holiday pay and a union member routinely scheduled for 12-hour shifts will receive 12 hours pay for that holiday.
2. No additional guaranteed or automatic annu...
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