Title
Collective Bargaining Agreement 2018- 2021 with
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO,
Local 2920 (AFSCME)
Body
Agenda of: September 25, 2019
Item No.: 2019-347
Amount: N/A
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Sue F. McCormick
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: September 25, 2019
RE: Collective Bargaining Agreement 2018- 2021 with
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 2920 (AFSCME)
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Terri Conerway, Chief Organizational Development Officer, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), Authorizes the GLWA's Chief Executive Officer to execute a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 2920 for a term ending June 30, 2021; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
Under the terms of the Lease Agreements, CBA's that were in place with DWSD were assigned to the GLWA on the Effective Date of the Leases. Employees who were offered employment by GLWA and who were members of a union with an assigned CBA, continued under the terms of that CBA.
AFSCME represents workers in a wide variety of classifications across the utility. At the time of the Leases' Effective Date, AFSCME had a CBA in place that was assigned to GLWA. That CBA expired on June 30, 2018. The GLWA and the union have reached a tentative agreement on a CBA covering the period of July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2021, and the union has ratified that CBA. Although the term of this CBA is sequential to the prior CBA, as required by law, there are no retroactive benefits or adjustments.
JUSTIFICATION
The terms of the CBA with the AFSCME are largely consistent with the terms of other CBA's governing GLWA employees and with the Em...
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