Members of ATU Local 192, here is what was presented today to our Officers at the 10:00 a.m. and the 4:00 p.m. meeting. In both meetings, our President and Business Agent of Transportation vowed to take this to our lawyers, and present this for negotiation. We will print and distribute copies of this to all Divisions. CONTRACT PROPOSAL: FROM: ATU LOCAL 192 TO: ALAMEDA CONTRA COSTA TRANSIT DISTRICT DATE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 This is a proposal put together by the different bargaining units of ATU Local 192. It is very important to note why the members of ATU Local 192 cannot give or except a concessionary proposal or tentative agreement respectively. Upon the signing of the tentative agreement on 6/11/08, the members agreed to forgo any raise, and opted to receive a total cost –of –living increase of 1.5% in three years. We did this knowing that it was nothing, not even the cost-of-living for those times; yet we made that concession. After that contract expired, we were asked to give an even greater piece of our living. Reluctantly, we had to give up 6-5-3%, of every cent that we worked for over three years. With that contract, we froze the cost –of-living; we also gave up a holiday, Veterans Day. Some of our work rules were changed dramatically. We started receiving bi-weekly pay checks, instead of weekly. We lost huge portions of our Opt-out payments, while the District gained more than half of it. We were not paid overtime if actual platform did not exceed 8hrs/day-40hrs/week, or if we took casuals, floaters, birth-days, and vacation days, all of which are approved absences. We were not getting paid the first sick day, unless we had 24 or more sick days on the book, and even then, we had to take more than 1 day to get paid. We started to pay co-pay to medical. We lost classifications, PBX and Para-Transit; the District merged classification in the middle of contract and added more work to certain classification in the middle of contract. The District would not hire for certain classifications, causing more work for the people left working the classification, yet the pay did not change. These and many other things we lost, including the fact that we are underpaid already, compared to agencies as big as we are. All this time, the housing market crashed, economy went bust, Members lost like everyone else, but they had to give back. Things have sky rocketed, economy is picking up, the District is out of the red, compliments of this membership; yet the membership lives in the past financially. We cannot give because there is no more to give. Giving any piece now will be us paying AC Transit for us to come to work, and that is just not fair. We are asking that the District considers our proposal, and consider us employees and not slaves. Like them, we have families, and we are only asking for what we deserve. Give us what we deserve!!!! The members of ATU Local 192, proposes to extend the language of the 2007 Collective Bargaining Agreement between AC Transit District and ATU Local 192, beginning July 01, 2013 to June 30, 2016. In addition, ATU Local 192 proposes to modify certain sections as stipulated below: 1. 6.04- oldest and newest absence to come off as of the signing of the contract. 2. Before Any Raise: Wages of all G.O. Clerical Office Employees shall be brought up by $1.57 as part of their top pay. 3. Increase Janitors and service employees’ wages to reflect comparable industry standards (Bart, Muni, EBMUD, Etc.) 4. Wages of Time Keeper’s and Division Clerks must be brought up to the equivalent of the Dispatcher’s wages. 5. WAGE INCREASE: The wages of all ATU Local 192 members to include a 25% raise to be distributed as follows: 9% year 1, 8% year 2 and 8% year 3. This shall be retroactive to July 1, 2013. 6. ATU Local 192 Members elect to pay no more than $40 first year, $50, second year and $60, third year flat rate towards health care contributions. 7. District shall Increase pension to 2.5 at age 60, instead of 2. ¼ percent 8. Restoration of the Cost of Living (COLA) increase 9. Restoration of the Employee incentive Program 10. Restore overtime pay when working day off if you have a CV, FH, BD and are on Vac. 11. Restore Tripper pay (Section61.01), minimum of 3 hours pay at straight time for work outside of regular work. 12. Restore Veterans Day, Restore 1st day sick 13. Allow Employees to use accrued sick days for bonafide illness or to care for qualified family members without penalty. 14. Delete- section 6.06(a) pertaining to absences of more than 45 consecutive days- (7 or more). 15. Section 17.08(g) shall reflect the allowance of 5 casuals’ slots per division/day. 16. The district shall guarantee no less than 2 casual per shift per day for each classification in the Maintenance Department. The District will notify the union if any division is unable to honor this guarantee. 17. The district shall guarantee no less than 1 casual per shift per day for Storeroom Personnel 18. Section 53.0 Report time shall reflect 15 minutes 19. Allow members to use P-Sick for time off for hearings. 20. The District and the Union shall chose a neutral party or allow a Medical Doctor to determine what should constitute Trauma for ATU Members 21. The District shall include nights and weekend shift for Janitors to ensure a sanitary environment for all workers. 22. The District shall include a Dispatchers shift 4:00a to 12:00p or 5:00a to 1:00pm at each Division; 3 full time dispatchers needed. 23. All ATU classifications should be clearly defined, eliminating all ambiguous language, to prevent tempering of any sort without negotiations. Job descriptions cannot be outsourced, merged, added to or subtracted anytime during a contract except upon the expiration of such contract and the beginning of a new contract negotiation. 24. The District cannot go back more than 15 minutes when looking at a video on an incident or accident. They should only look for things pertaining to the incident or accident and within the time frame for which the incident happened. This eliminates any harassment of Operators. 25. If the District claimed someone called in (a witness) and they pull a video because of such call, the District cannot only used the video to charge the Operator because the video cannot be questioned. Because the call in was the basis for the proposed discipline, the witness shall come in to testify, otherwise, this should be considered here say, and the charges thrown out as stated in section 3.05.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:25:37 +0000
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