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CCC Bargaining Update

Schedule of

negotiations:

Mon/Tue Aug 9-10

Tue/Wed Aug 17-18

Wed/Thu Sep 1-2

Wed/Thu Sep 15-16

CC Coalition

Bargaining Team:

Rodolfo Franco, BlvuCC

Beverly Snow, CentC

Wendy Irish, CCSpok

Marlene Cortez, CCSpok

Rick Halverson, CCSpok

Max Phipps, EVCCTodd Henderson, GRCC

Rick Getchman, GRCC

Vicki Echerd, LCC

Craig Gentile, PC

Betsy McConnell-

Gutierriz, SeaCC

Milton Smith, SeaCC

Matthew Davenhall, SeaCC

Sam Bess, ShorelineCC

Merrie Raymond-

Haskey, SPSCC

Chris Rea, SPSCC

Angie Simpson, TCCLaurie Harmon, TCC

Amy Weaver, WCC

Rosemary Sterling, WCC

Lead Negotiator:

Kurt Spiegel

kurts@wfse.org

Contact the team:

info@wfse.org

Please put Message

for the CCC BargainingTeam in the subject line.

Online at:

www.wfse.org >

Bargaining Center >

Community College

Coalition Bargaining

Team News & Info

Washington Federation of State Employees AFSCME Council 28 AFL-CIO www.wfse.org

Community College Coalition Bargaining Team August 18, 2010

The tone of bargaining is intensifying and

testing even our seasoned team members,

but we continue to ght the good ght for

members.

After two days and 25 separate articles

passing across the table with proposals and

counterproposals, only one article reached

tentative agreement: Article 22 - Drug andAlcohol Free Workplace.

Under Article 22 employees perform-

ing safety-sensitive functions are already

subject to reasonable suspicion testing

for alcohol or controlled substances. Our

team stopped attempts to alter this article

and signed off a tentative agreement (TA)

maintaining current language.

Negotiations continued on August 17-18 in

Olympia. Report next week.

The WFSE/AFSCME-led coalition of all

state employee unions began bargaining

on the health care benets funding article

August 10. But there was no good news.

The union initiated a proposal that centers on

the unions interest of keeping health costs

low in the face of recent and huge increases

in out-of-pocket costs and premiums.

Management did not offer a counterpro-

posal. They hinted strongly their interest in

raising your share of premium costs from

the current 12 percent and decreasing your

level of benets.

Both sides agreed to meet again August 24.

Rodolfo Franco, our teams representative

to the health care coalition team, and Cathy

Green, EWU health care coalition repre-

Pace of bargainingslow, tone intense

The employer representative

started by comparing what

other states were doing for

health care.

What we dont need in this

state is mediocrity for the

members in terms of health

care benets.

- Rodolfo Franco

CCC Bargaining Team member

and Health Care Coalition

representative

Negotiations are going

slow and hard -management seems to be

worried about pennies but

they are taking dollars from

all classied staff

- Rick Halverson

CCC Bargaining Team member

sentative, updated the team.

Health Care Grievance Update:

The states Labor Relations Ofce on

Friday (Aug. 13) denied the Federations

health care grievance.

This is the grievance to recoup some $216

million in your surplus health funds di-verted by the Legislature in 2008. Because

of that diversion, your deductibles, co-pays

and other out-of-pocket costs skyrocketed

this past January.

The union in part alleges that when the

surplus arose, it should have been returned

in proportion to the employers obligation

to pay 88 percent of the premium costs and

employees 12 percent share.

HEALTH CARE COALITION BARGAINING UPDATES

see GRIEVANCE on back side

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Washington Federation of State Employees

WFSE/AFSCME Council 28 AFL-CIO

Community College Coalition Bargaining Team

CCC Bargaining Update

GRIEVANCE

In this case, the employer took

all the benet for itself, AFSCME

Director of Collective Bargaining

Steve Kreisberg said in the griev-

ance hearing.

LRO Director Diane Leigh ruled

the grievance was led too late and

even if it was timely, no funds

were diverted to other portions of

the state budget.

The Federation has 30 days to le

for arbitration.

The union will save its counterar-

gument for arbitration. But its safe

to say the state missed the point:

The union has documented the di-

version; and it only became aware

of the magnitude of the diversions

impact this springafter protract-

ed pushing and prodding to get ac-

curate information from the state.

The Public School Employees/

SEIU followed the Federation in

ling a grievance as well. All were

consolidated and all were denied

by the state.