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Bargaining UpdateJune 2012 www.wfse.org

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONSchedules:

UW negotiations:

July 13July 27

Aug. 9Aug. 17Aug. 22

Health Care

Coalition

negotiations:

July 17, 18, 19

Your rep from the UW

Bargaining Team:

Nicole Kennedy

This is the coalition

of all state employee

unions that under the

law negotiates at onetime on the health care

benefts amounts article

that goes in all state

collective bargaining

agreements.

Contact the team:

info@wfse.org

Please put Mes-

sage for the UW

Bargaining Team

in the subject line.

Bargaining updates

online at:

www.wfse.org >

Bargaining Center >

UW Bargaining Team

Info & News

Local 1488 online at:

www.wfsec28.org/

local1488/

Ready to ght for you at the bargaining table, from left, our UW Bargaining Team: Ed

Vazquez, Francisca Flores, Joe Davenport, Jake Whitefsh, Kelly Durand, Jill

Burr, Kimberle Kim Shaw, Jay Herzmark, Jesse Dailey, John Miller, Chief Negoti

atorBanks Evans and Elisa Coghlan. Not available for photo: Claude Theard, John

Frazier, Nicole Kennedy and Ray Trice.

Our UW Bargaining Team heads back to the table July 13

Our union teamand manage-ment exchange

rst proposals innegotiations onyour 2013-2015contract

Our Universityof Washington/Har-borview Medical

Center BargainingTeam kicked offnegotiations on thenext contract.

Thats the 2013-2015 collective bar-gaining agreementthat would take ef-fect in a year, on July1, 2013.

Negotiations withUW management

began May 23. Asecond session cameJune 6. The nextround of negotia-tions begins July 13.

The team held a

meeting June 26 todiscuss strategy inthe days before theJuly 13 session.

Theyll also beanalyzing the resultsof the bargainingpriorities surveysthat Local 1488members returned.

That will help set thepace at the bargain-ing table.

After a toughstart May 23 withfour hours onground rules --with the employerwanting us to

bargain for free-- our union teampresented our rstset of proposals,

said bargainingteam memberJoe Davenport,communicationsofcer for the team.

Union proposals presented 5/23/12:

Article 17 ContractingArticle 19 Training

Article 20 Licensure and CerticationArticle 23 Corrective Action

Article 24 Grievance ProcedureArticle 26 Health and SafetyArticle 27 Holidays

Article 28 VacationsArticle 39 Hours of Work/Work SchedulesArticle 40 Overtime

Article 41 Wages & Other Pay ProvisionsArticle 45 Promotions/Transfers

Article 49 Seniority, Layoff, RehireArticle 60 Skilled Trades Wages and Other

Pay ProvisionsAppendix XII:Regular Temporary Employees

Management proposals presented6/6/12:

Article 8 -- Contract Distribution/PrintingArticle 21 Evaluations

Article 28 -- Vacations

Article 29 -- Sick LeaveArticle 31 -- FMLAArticle 32 -- Child Care

Article 35 -- Miscellaneous Paid LeavesArticle 40 OvertimeArticle 41 -- Wages

Article 48 ClassicationArticle 56 -- Mandatory Subjects

Article 57 -- Terms of Agreement (to t newdates)

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OLYMPIA WA

PERMIT NO. 238

Enforcing the contract:The UW Special Pay case

Management is not going to make this easy, and well need

backup from every member to impress them with our power.

Stand by for actions, stickers, buttons, etc. We need to let the

UW know that there are 3,000-plus members who care about

this contract.Joe Davenport, UW Bargaining Team

We all need to stick together:

PICTURED:Ray Trice

UW Bargaining Team

Negotiating a contract is important but so is enforcingthe contract rights weve already negotiated.

And thats what were doing in the UW special pay

case.A couple months ago, the University of Washingtonappealed to Superior Court a state commission decision infavor of the union on special pay provisions for a numberof custodial and Trades classes. This comes even though theUW had agreed to the special pay provisions and even paidfor several months.

In short, were using any and all resources availableto us to force the UW to meet their obligations to payemployees the money owed to them.

And, yes, we believe that the commission decisionrequires them to pay those affected from the time theystopped paying the additional money up to and including

the present. With interest. It all started when the UW unilaterally withdrew the

three-part wage increases as of Jan. 31, 2009. The union ledan unfair labor practice complaint -- and won, even whenthe UW appealed.

Meanwhile, we led a grievance April 24 because bynot paying now in the wake of the state ruling, the UW has

violated a memorandum of understanding in the current,2011-2013 contract. Under that provision, the UW agreedto implement any such decision of the PERC (PublicEmployment Relations Commission) during the course ofan appeal.

Said PERC: When an employer implements anegotiated wage increase during the term of the agreement,the status quo is altered. The employer created a newstatus quo when it implemented the increased shiftdifferential for custodial employees on July 1, 2008;the increased shift differential for other employees onNovember 1, 2008; and the market adjustment for certainskilled trades employees on November 1, 2008.

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