Longtime Shop Steward and bargaining team member David
Shaughnessy retired on December 31, 2011, after a 23 year career that
spanned two rounds of layoffs, closure of the Central Stores where he worked
during the 1990's, and a transition to a new IT career.
Dave has been an active member of Local 120's City of Tacoma
unit. His Storekeeper job was discontinued in the late 1990's, when Prop. 3
discontinued the Central Stores warehouse. He took on an on the job
training program to learn to be a Computer Support Technician, and was
eventually promoted to Computer Systems Programmer. He was a Senior IT
Analyst when he retired.
We will miss Dave at the bargaining table, and on the job. Good Luck!
Business
Analysts Approve Accretion Deal
Bargaining Team members Laurel Campbell, Mary Hodgman,
Laurie Mayfield and Vickie Crumbley-Fulmer count the ballots on
Tuesday, December 6, 2011.
On Tuesday,
December 6th, Business Analysts from the City of
Tacoma voted 17 - 5 to accept the City’s offer to accrete them into the Local
120 City of Tacoma unit. This was an improved offer over the one
rejected by the Business Analysts on November 15th.
This new offer includes PTO/Sick-Vacation conversion rights, restoration of
longevity pay, Appendix A placement, abolishment of the 'quarter-step' pay
plan, replaced by a 6 step pay range, overtime eligibility for the BA-I's, BA-II's and most importantly, the
BA-III's.
No wage adjustments were included in the offer.
This historic vote brings to a close a 9 1/2 year long struggle with the
City to give overtime pay, longevity pay and seniority rights to the
Business Analysts. It started in June of 2002, when the City embarked
on the Business Systems Improvement Project, and promised to make any new
jobs that were created as a result of the project into Union positions.
The City instead chose to use appointive positions in the
Management Analyst classification to avoid Union representation for these
people. Grievances and a unit clarification hearing with PERC ensued
over the following years, but the will of the employees prevailed, and they
voted to join the Union in April, 2010.
Big thanks are in order for the bargaining team members Mary Hodgman, Laurie
Mayfield, Vickie Crumbley-Fulmer and Laurel Campbell, for their patience,
dedication and endurance, as they bargained tirelessly with City negotiators
for the past 20 months.
Seniority and Bumping Rights for both the Business Analysts and the
Broadband Techs will be negotiated along with the main City of Tacoma
bargaining Team, who is currently meeting with City officials to iron out
unresolved issues from the Class & Comp negotiations last spring.
The new deal goes into effect upon approval by the City Council.
Click!
Broadband Techs
Settle Contract
November 14, 2011 Broadband Services Technicians voted to accept the City's Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU), which upon ratification by the Utility Board and City Council will
officially bring the 8 new members under the main Local 120 City of Tacoma
bargaining agreement.
The MOU
provides for overtime pay, clarification of standby pay language, PTO/Sick
Leave-Vacation conversion rights, retroactive restoration of longevity pay
to August 30, 2010, withdrawal of take-home vehicles for employees on call,
abolishment of the old 'quarter-step' wage scale, replaced by an 8 step pay
range, placement in Appendix A of the main contract, and a one-time lump sum
payment of $600, to compensate for the removal of the take-home vehicles.
No pay adjustments were included.
This vote brings to an end a 2 1/2 year process that included 12 months of
bargaining, a unit clarification hearing with PERC, a merger election, and a
card signing campaign that began in the summer of 2009.
The Broadband Techs voted to join Local 120 in the summer of
2009, only to face one obstacle after another at the hands of Click!
management, from forcing a unit
clarification hearing, to a
merger election, and now protracted contract negotiations, all spanning
the better part of two years.
With City negotiators doing their best
to draw out bargaining for as long as possible, the Broadband Techs had
finally had enough, and called for the informational picket in July, in an attempt
to break the stalemate.
After bringing in a mediator, the stalemate was broken, and
a deal was reached.
The AFSCME Council 2 50th Biennial Convention
was held on June 3 - 5, 2011 at the Westin hotel in Seattle,
Washington.
Pictured above are the Local 120 delegates to the
50th Biennial Convention, from left:
Joyce Seeger, Donna Sigo, Rhonda Perozzo, Matt Santelli,
Michelle Smith, Laurie Bischof, Celeste Suliin Burris.
Back Row, from left: John Ohlson, Wayne Withrow,
John McNaughton, George Hermosillo, Manie Pinckney, Dian Seider.
New Staff Rep Joins Local 120 Staff Rep. Dylan Carlson joined us on January
1, 2011, replacing the vacant position filled by Bill Keenan for
the past year.
Dylan has a background in
political strategy, and campaign management, making him a
valuable resource to the Local.
He will oversee the following
Local 120 Bargaining Units:
City of Tacoma
Tacoma Pierce County Health Dept.
Tacoma Public Library
Pierce County
Dylan works out of the Council 2
Olympia office, and can be reached at 1-800-311-9713, ext. 27.
City of Tacoma Members Approve
Merger with
Click! Broadband Technicians
8/19/10
The results of our recent Unit Merger election, which combines
the 9 member Click! Broadband Technician unit with the 159
member City of Tacoma unit were reported by PERC on August, 19,
2010.
• In the Click unit, there were 9 votes for the merger and 0
votes against it.
• In the City of Tacoma unit, there were 99 votes for the merger
and 6 against it.
80 Yes votes were required to win from the COT Unit, and 5 for
the Click! unit.
The merger increases the City of Tacoma bargaining unit to 168
members, the third largest in the City of Tacoma. The
merger brings greater strength to our Union, and provides
greater bargaining power to both units.
Click! management fought fiercely to stop this merger, spending
thousands of dollars in legal expenses and manager's salaries to
hold a hearing back in March, to fight against holding this
vote. Their claim was that these employees did not share a
'community of interest' with other Local 120 members, even
though they do similar work. PERC ruled in our favor, clearing
the way for this merger election.
Talks with the City will begin shortly, that will work to bring
these new members under our existing Contract.
Officers Elected for 2011 -
2012
At
the December 6, 2010 General membership meeting the following
officers were elected to serve for the 2011 - 2012 term:
John Ohlson - President Angelo DeFazio - Vice President Dian Seider - Secretary Treasurer Celeste Suliin Burris - Recording Secretary Wayne Withrow - Sergeant at Arms Joyce Seeger - Trustee
Quote of the
day: "For a worker to refuse to belong to a union is not to
exercise a democratic freedom. It is to accept benefits that others have
worked for without contributing to the costs. Democracy flourishes only
when freedom is accompanied by responsibility." (Australian Bank
Employees Union)......
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Longtime Shop Steward and bargaining team member David
Shaughnessy retired on December 31, 2011, after a 23 year career that
spanned two rounds of layoffs, closure of the Central Stores where he worked
during the 1990's, and a transition to a new IT career.
New Staff Rep Joins Local 120
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