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Report regarding a resolution to approve successor Memorandums of Understanding between the City of South San Francisco and the Teamsters Mid-Management and Confidential Units for July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2024 and approving budget amendment number 23.011 (Leah Lockhart, Human Resources Director)
RECOMMENDATION
Adopt a resolution to approve successor Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with the Teamsters Local 856 Mid-management and Confidential units, providing for adjustments to wages and other terms and conditions for the period of July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2024 and to approve budget amendment number 23.011.
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BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
The City's regular full-time workforce is organized into six (6) represented bargaining units, as well as the unrepresented Public Safety Managers Unit and Executive Management Unit. In accordance with the Meyer-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA), the City negotiates agreements with each unit over wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, and such agreements are memorialized in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) over a specified term.
The Teamsters Local 856 Union represents two City employee units. The Mid-Management Unit consists of approximately ninety (90) managerial and professional administrative staff. The Confidential Unit consists of approximately thirty-five (35) non-managerial administrative and technical support staff. In January, 2022 City Council authorized staff to negotiate successor MOUs with Teamsters Local 856 within established parameters, as the current MOUs were set to expire on June 30, 2022. The appointed negotiators met with representatives of the Mid-Management and Confidential units and held several meetings over a period of approximately six months, and reached a tentative agreement with both units on August 31, 2022. The tentative agreements were subsequently ratified by Union membership on September 7, 2022.
The proposed successor MOUs are effective for a two-year term, from July 1...
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