HomeMy WebLinkAboutMOA between COA and Teamsters Local Union No. 117 MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
By and Between
City of Auburn
And
TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO. 117
Affiliated with the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Re: Janus
This Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), made effective on the date of signature of this MOU, is
entered into by and between Teamsters Local Union No. 117 (Union) and the City of Auburn (the
City), referred to herein collectively as the Parties. Both parties agree to amend the current
Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), Article I and II, as follows:
Article I
RECOGNITION AND BARGAINING UNIT
The City hereby recognized the Union as the sole exclusive collective bargaining representative
of all full-time employees and all regular, part-time employees classified in Appendix "A" and who
work in the following departments and/or divisions: Building Maintenance, Custodians, Cemetery,
Equipment Rental, Golf Course, Parks, Sanitary Sewer, Streets, Water, and Storm Drainage.
Temporary employees with seven (7) months or less per year and part-time employees with less
than eighty (80) hours in a month, supervisors, confidential, professional, protection employees,
and employees engaged in training and instruction for management positions shall be excluded
from the bargaining unit. Non-benefited employees shall be used and defined per City Policy
200-23. Non-benefited employees shall not be used to supplant the regular employee workforce.
A regular, part-time employee shall be defined as an employee hired by the City to work twenty
(20) or more hours, but less than forty (40) hours per week on a continuous, regularly-scheduled
annual basis.
Article II
UNION MEMBERSHIP AND DUES DEDUCTIONS
Section 1. All employees working in the bargaining unit shall have the right to become a member
of the Union.
Section 2. The City agrees to deduct from the paycheck of each employee,who has so authorized
it in writing,the initiation fee and regular monthly dues uniformly required of members of the Union.
The amount deducted shall be transmitted monthly to the Union on behalf of the employees
involved.
Section 3. An employee may revoke his or her authorization for payroll deduction of payments to
the Union by written notice to the City and Union. Every effort will be made to end the deduction
effective on the first payroll, but not later than the second payroll, after the City's receipt of the
employee's written notice.
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Section 4. The Union agrees to defend and indemnify and save the City harmless against any
liability which may arise by reason of any action taken by the City to comply with the provisions
of this Article, including reimbursement for any legal fees or expenses incurred in connection with
such action. The City will promptly notify the Union in writing of any claim, demand, suit, or other
form of liability asserted against it relating to its implementation of this Article.
Section 5. D.R.I.V.E. The City agrees to deduct from the paycheck of all employees who submit
authorization cards and are covered by this Agreement voluntary contributions to D.R.I.V.E.
D.R.I.V.E shall notify the City of the amounts designated by each contributing employee and/or
changes to the amounts that are to be deducted from his/her paycheck each pay period for which
the employee worked and earned a wage, or notify the City of the discontinuation of the voluntary
contribution. The voluntary contributions, changes in the amounts of the voluntary contributions,
or the discontinuation of the voluntary contributions to D.R.I.V.E will be made as soon as
practically possible from the employee's paycheck, but no later than thirty (30) days upon receipt
of the amounts designated by each contributing employee from D.R.I.V.E.
The City will send, on a bi-monthly basis, one check for the total amount deducted along with the
name of each employee on whose behalf a deduction is made, the employee's social security
number, and the amount deducted from the employee's paycheck. No authorization and/or
deductions shall be made which is prohibited by applicable law. The International Brotherhood
of Teamsters shall reimburse the City annually for the City's actual cost for the expenses incurred
in administering the payroll deduction plan.
Section 6. New Hire Orientation: The Union Business Representative shall have up to thirty (30)
minutes, during an employee's first week of employment, to meet with newly hired employees
covered by this CBA for the purposes of filling out Union paperwork and orienting the employee
to the Union membership. The thirty (30) minutes shall be at a mutually agreeable time between
the City and the Union.
Except as expressly amended herein, all other provisions of the January 1, 2017, through
December 31, 2019, collective bargaining agreement between the City of Auburn and Teamsters
Union Local No. 117 remain in effect.
Signed this /3 day of 5t,w4C-04,114-A' , 2018, at Auburn, Washington
CITY OF AUBURN TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION
NO. 117, IBT
CANDIS MARTINSON JO SCEARCY
Director, Human Resources & Secretary-Treasurer
Risk Management
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