Teamsters 117 Negotiations Recap for April 30, 2024
Background
This recap details the third bargaining session for the 2025-2027 collective bargaining agreement between the UW and Teamsters 117. The session was held in-person on April 30, 2024. Recaps are published online on the UW Labor Relations website.
Proposed Tentative Agreements
Both parties have proposed tentative agreements to the following:
- Article 8 Employee Files
- Changes are housekeeping edits and language clean-up only, for example correctly referring to an employee’s “official personnel file” and “departmental file.”
- Article 12 Leaves-General
- Minor housekeeping edits only.
Union Counter Proposals
Article 15: Hours Of Work And Overtime– In response to the Employer, the Union presented a What-If proposal in which Article 15 would be current contract language, except for maintaining proposed new language that bargaining unit work would be offered at double time before the work is offered outside the unit. This What-If would be a change from the Union’s initial proposal on Article 15, found here.
Union What-If Package Proposal:
The Union presented a What-If package proposal including Articles 11, 16, and 25.
- Article 11 Holidays– The Union proposed new language that if an employee’s holiday credit balance is greater than 280 hours, they must cash out at least 60 hours of the excess of 280 annually in June.
- Article 16 Compensatory Time Off– The Union proposed that up each employee may carry 220 hours of compensatory time into the next fiscal year (currently 240).
- Article 25 Wages– In this package, the Union proposed a 19% increase on July 1, 2025 and a 7% increase on July 1, 2026. This is a change from the Union’s initial proposal of 20% and 10%.
Employer Counter Proposals
Article 7: Union Business Activities Absences– After discussion with the Union, the Employer proposed to strike the 32 hours of paid time to conduct Union business. This proposal would not preclude stewards from using paid time for contract administration. The Employer proposed reverting back to contract language for 30 days’ notice of unpaid time off for Union projects, which is fewer days than the previously proposed 60 days’ notice. Lastly, this proposal states that paid release time would not count toward the calculation of overtime.
Article 9: Sick Time Off– In response to the Union, the Employer proposed clarifying language on the use of sick time off due to inclement weather. The proposal states that sick time off may be granted if the employee is unable to report to work due to inclement weather and all compensatory time, holiday credit, personal holiday, and vacation time off have been exhausted.
Employer What-If Package Proposal:
The Employer presented a What-If package proposal including Articles 11, 13, 15, 16, 20, and 25.
In this proposed package the following Articles would be current contract language:
- Article 16 Compensatory Time Off
- Article 15 Hours of Work and Overtime
This package also includes the Employer’s proposals from April 24, 2024 for Article 13 Uniforms/Personal Items and Article 20 Longevity And Premiums. Those proposals can be found in the April 24 Recap.
Lastly, the Employer proposed that this package would include two new proposals on Articles 11 and 25.
- Article 11 Holidays– In this proposal, the only change from current contract language is a housekeeping edit which clarifies that the personal holiday is discussed in a separate section and not part of the list of eleven State scheduled holidays.
- Article 25 Wages– The Employer proposed a 4% increase on July 1, 2025 and a 4% increase on July 1, 2026. This is an change from the Employer’s initial proposal of 3.5% and 2.5%.
Next Steps
The next UW and Teamsters 117 bargaining session is scheduled for June 5, 2024.