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County Administrator's Report 13. 20.

BCC Regular Meeting

Technical/Public Service Consent

Meeting Date:	09/24/2015
Issue: New Labor Agreement between the Escambia Board of County Commissioners (BCC) and the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1771
From:	Thomas Turner
Department:	Human Resources
CAO Approval:

RECOMMENDATION:

Recommendation Concerning a New Labor Agreement with the Amalgamated Transit Union - Thomas G. “Tom” Turner, Human Resources Department Director

That the Board approve and authorize the Chairman to sign the new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners (BCC), and the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Local 1771, for a period from August 1, 2015, through September 30, 2017.

BACKGROUND:

The BCC and the ATU have been working under a continuing labor agreement since the expiration of the last agreement on September 30, 2012. The parties have met and negotiated several times over the last 2 years and completed an agreement following the Board action and direction approving new pay increases for certain ATU classifications in the Facilities Maintenance and Parks and Recreation Departments. The new agreement recognizes those increases back to August 1, 2015. Additional changes include elimination of a clause specifically referencing 13 holidays and relying on language that provides the employees the same number of holidays as approved in Board policy; the inclusion of holiday time as hours worked for the purposes of determining overtime to encourage turnout for required work activities when a week includes a holiday; elimination of a phrase referencing promotion procedures; clarification of the residual longevity clause to clarify that it is frozen in place and no new longevity increases are being earned; and a Complete Agreement clause indicating this document is the complete and total agreement between the parties. This contract was ratified overwhelmingly by the member ship during the last week of August 2015.

BUDGETARY IMPACT:

There is no budgetary impact other than the increases currently included in the FY2016 budget.

LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS/SIGN-OFF:

THIS CONTRACT HAS BEEN REVIEWED BY MICHAEL MATTIMORE (ALLEN, NORTON, & BLUE, P.A.).

PERSONNEL:

POLICY/REQUIREMENT FOR BOARD ACTION:

None other than this action.

IMPLEMENTATION/COORDINATION:

The Human Resources Department will work with Local 1771 to obtain a printed contract that has the appropriate union label. The history of the parties is for the union to print the contracts and provide a portion of the stock to the County at the union's cost per contract. Human Resources will work with departments that have ATU employees to familiarize them with the limited changes.

Attachments
ATU_Agreement_08012015