Agenda - Council - 09/05/1990 - Closed Executive Meeting

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CASE #1 AFSCME PROPOSALS FOR CONTRACT MODIFICATION FOR 1991 BY: Kay McAIoney, Personnel Coordinator Background: On August 10, 1990 City Labor Relations Representative Bernard Steffen and Personnel Coordinator Kay McAIoney met with AFSCME Business Representative Matt Nelson and City of Ramsey AFSCME Union Steward Gayle Rogers to begin negotiations for the 1991 AFSCME bargaining unit contract. A list of the 20 employees that are represented by the AFSCME bargaining unit has been included in this agenda. This list includes positions, the salary range of each position, date of position and original date of employment for each employee. Observations: Article 2.11 on page 2 in the AFSCME 1989 - 1990 contract lists several classifications of employees such as Regular Full-time, Temporary Full-time, Regular Part-time and Temporary Part-time but gives no definitions of each. A draft "Employee Classification Definitions" sheet has been attached defining each of the classifications. PAY PLAN TEXT 1991 - APPENDIX A 2a of Appendix A for the proposed 1991 Pay Plan Text states that the bargaining unit is requesting a 7.5% increase effective January 1, 1991. The difference in this and the current contract is that the general increase for each of 1989 and 1990 was 3% and it was effective with the start of the first full payroll period commencing after January 1, which was January 13th for 1990 and would be January 12th for 1991. The estimated cost of the 7.5% increase is $32,608. The estimated cost of the increase taking effect January 1st versus January 12th of 1991 is $1,155. 2b and 2c relate to performance increases. The 1989 and 1990 contract performance increases are 5% of the range minimum for employees below the range midpoint and 3.5% of the range minimum for employees above the range midpoint. The proposal of AFSCME for 1991 is 5% for employees below the midpoint and 3.5% for employees above the midpoint, the difference being the "of the range minimum" language. The cost of the performance increases for the calendar year 1990 using the proposed language versus the current 1989 and 1990 contract language would have an additional cost to the City of $564. The cost of the performance increases as requested (still using 5% for employees below midpoint and 3.5% for employees above the midpoint) for the calendar year of 1991 would be an additional $26,812. Also in 2b and 2c there is a request for the performance increases to be effective .~n the employee's position anniversary date rather than the current language of "at the start of the first full payroll period following the employee's position anniversary date." The cost of this request would have been an additional $250.08 for the calendar year of 1990.