Management is going to present their core economic package at 10 a.m. so we are sitting in the Chavez room. Ken Steele, Rod Dlouhy, Amy Regimbal, Mike Scott, Betty Huskey, Kermit Meling, Cameron McGinnis, Scott Stinnett, Don Tolman, Jay Burkert are all here to represent ODOT workers today. As soon as we get news today I will post it and we can go from there.
Update: We're in the westroom and management is getting ready to pass out their economic proposals. In the meantime we're doing introductions as there are a lot of folks at bargaining who are new to the process. Eva Corbin from DAS is preparing to pass out their 'comprehensive' package. I'll write some notes from her talk: "some of the selectives are in here and we will provide it to the bargaining team members. beginning with article 26, couple areas they have modified... institution RN proposal bachelor (4.75%), masters (9.5%) one or the other... another differential we have addressed selective improved for insurance examiner... made improvement on forestry worker completed degree would start at step 6... shift differential we have adjusted differential for RN to 1.85 and for all other personnel we have increased it to .75 cents an hour... states proposal effective july 1st 2007, 2% each year 2% in october 2008, 50 dollar floor... you've seen new and revised classes so selectives are on page 5 and 6... i'd like to address one change... we are introducing one change to entry level classifications with 4 steps... and next higher rate would be on new higher rates starting at step 5.... the staff will explain selectives... which is a small percentage of the selectives you proposed and they will explain why such a small percentage... she says it will be least cost implimentation... in terms of article 31 insurance, the state has made improvement in a couple areas have improved from 8 to 11% for second year of contract... subsidy put back in but would not cover increases..." some lady from DAS is explaining how they come up with their response to selectives... I just looked through the short list of selectives they responded to and I see none of the ODOT selectives have been accepted... I also see none of the office workers were granted their selectives, which had been a priority of the union bargaining team... I will post more in a little bit
Update II: Leslie is delivering a blistering speech defending workers and letting them know this is not nearly good enough
Update III: Management's criteria for Selectives used a different set of data than they had committed to and they used the top salary rather than a middle salary or a starting salary. Union members argued nobody starts at the top step. There is a lot of anger in the room from our side... We have to show them the next three weeks how insulting their offers are...
Update IV: Our bargaining team got in a heated exchange about what the point of delivering selective presentations to their bargaining team is if the agency head is really the only one who can decide on the selectives. The few selectives they agreed to added up to maybe 100 workers total. Obviously we have a lot of work to do
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I was very disappointed in the State's core economic proposal. We need to get out there and show them we will not settle for less than "E. T. I." EQUAL TO INFLATION!
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