{"id":93,"date":"2019-12-22T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T21:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/?p=93"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:27:39","slug":"bargaining-update-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/2019\/12\/22\/bargaining-update-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bargaining Update: December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our union negotiating committee met\nwith ESS management on December 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 9<sup>th<\/sup>, and 10<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp;\nThe company was represented by two corporate human resources\nrepresentatives.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We came to tentative agreements on\nmany non-economic proposals, including Hours of Work (we will now get 2\nadditional 10 minute paid breaks, and a 15 minute paid break if we work more\nthan 8 hours), Fair Discipline, Union Administration, Seniority and Layoffs,\nJob Openings, Grievance Procedure, Temporary Assignments\/Transfers (if union\nmembers work in a higher paid job, they will receive higher pay), Safety and\nHealth (including reimbursement up to $20 for TB tests), Leaves of Absence,\nBadges, Successor Employers, No Discrimination, and Paychecks.&nbsp; Tentative agreements become final when we\nvote on our full contract.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The union presented our economic\nproposals on December 10<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp;\nThe management representatives said that our proposal was too expensive,\nand then they said that they were too angry to continue to negotiate because\nour proposal for wage increases, paid time off, and benefits was\nridiculous.&nbsp; They said that we shouldn\u2019t\ncompare ourselves to the Winslow Teachers\u2019 contract.&nbsp; Then management left in the middle of the day\nand said that they would be in touch.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not ridiculous to expect\ndecent wages and benefits for the work that we do!&nbsp; ESS should come back to the negotiating table\nand treat us with the respect that we deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also discussed the recent emails from Kersteen regarding attendance discipline, etc.&nbsp; The company agreed that no more such emails will be sent during bargaining, because we are negotiating over these issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your school hasn\u2019t chosen stewards yet, we encourage you to select them.&nbsp; In the meantime, you can contact stewards from the other schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Negotiation-Update-12-12-19-1.pdf\">Negotiation-Update-12-12-19-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Negotiation-Update-12-12-19-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our union negotiating committee met with ESS management on December 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 10th.&nbsp; The company was represented by two corporate human resources representatives. We came to tentative agreements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/119\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}