Okay,

everyone, I'm going to call this work session to order.

Today is Friday, Friday, October 2nd.

This is a work session, not on a specific legislative item, but on the topic of the assembly's role in collective bargaining agreements.

And I think we'll get a general briefing on kind of how the system of bargaining agreements work represented, unrepresented employees, et cetera.

So we've got learning opportunity.

I will also note for the record that currently we are having internet issues at City Hall, and so we are not currently streaming on YouTube.

We are recording, and so if you are listening to this after the fact that you're listening to the audio recording, if and when uh the stream is up, we will take care of it at that time.

Uh but otherwise, and then we have folks, uh we don't have any on the phone right now, but when we do have folks on the phone, um we'll also uh be able to people can persist to be that way uh live.

So uh in the meantime, let's document who's in the room and then we will uh move forward.

Uh so starting with uh Ms.

Park.

You

want to uh we're gonna go call it Mark.

Present.

And

Raleigh.

And checking if there's anyone on the phone.

Okay,

not right now.

Uh we're also joined in the room by assembly council, clerk's office, interpreters, uh, uh, and uh the two people who be presenting for the administration.

So I will turn it over to them, and then I will also note we do have a uh presentation, um, and so you can find that on our website again if we only have the audio recording um by the end of this work session in council.

So I will turn to Mr.

Mark and Stan

and this one's

a quote.

Hi, I'm uh Aaron Billingsley, I'm the Chief Human Resource Officer for the regionality of Anbridge, uh and I'm joined here with Jason.

Yeah,

Jason Bachins said uh assistant uh municipal attorney.

And uh pretty much we've outlined here for you uh what we'll cover.

We're gonna start with what is a collective bargaining agreement, why we have them, what's inside of it, uh, and then we'll kind of walk through the differences between a represented and non-represented and the executive employee, how the terms

of employment are set for each of those different groups, and they do vary

pretty considerably.

Uh then we'll go through talking about how we come up with these collective bargaining agreements, what that process looks like, what happens when we are not able to reach agreements and what the different steps are that we have to take, and that directly crashes into what the assembly's role is in this whole process.

And um we'll go through sort of how that role changes before we start negotiating, while we're in the middle of negotiating, and then what happens when negotiations conclude.

And then we'll touch on sort of how this all dovetails into our budget and the budget process and sort of the considerations that we have to take to go back there.

Um

so we're starting with what is a collective bargaining agreement.

And I brought some props so that people that are uh at home don't get to see.

But um, we have these books that are contain our collective bargaining agreements.

They come in different colors and forms.

Um, but essentially they are contracts, and they're multi-year contracts between the municipality and some certified bargaining representative, which is the union.

Um, and so these booklets document the contract that we negotiate.

Um most of them range between three and four years.

We have guidances we can go up to five.

Um what's in these books are the terms and conditions of employment for the employees that each union covers.

And so those are things like wages, benefits, um, terms and conditions of employment, those those kinds of things.

Umunicipal code, chapter 3.70 gives us all of the rules about what needs to be in these agreements, um, what we can bargain over, what we can't bargain over, um, and sort of the process for what happens when we're stalling out and think the other side is not following the rules.

Um so there's a requirement that we have to bargain in good faith, and um that does not mean that we have to agree to anything or make any concessions, it just means that we have to

uh

bargain in good faith.

And then there's a process set out for what happens if we think that the other side is not, or they think that they are not.

Um chapter 3.70 sets out all of our rules, there's another rule that says we still have to follow our charter, all the ordinances, all the state laws, and all the federal laws.

So even though we've made our own rules, they have to, they can't conflict with um state laws, federal laws, and things like that.

I think one one thing I'll uh just add on to that, and we'll probably get into this a little bit more, is that um you know a lot of our various selective bargaining agreements do incorporate a lot of the uh issues that are incorporated in our overall personnel rules, but there are certain aspects of our personnel rules that are silent or don't get covered, and typically in all of those, if it is not talked about or discussed or mentioned, are actual personnel rules in 330 apply and control uh as we manage that contract.

So again, it's a lot of is in the CBA, but uh some of it also ends up being in municipal code that we have to be aware of as we're as we're managing these contracts.

So just real high level uh things that are in the contract versus items that are specifically excluded, and that um the assembly has via code said you're not these are not subjects of bargaining.

Um so the things that we do negotiate are like I said, schedules, hours of pay, wages, uh holidays leave, things like promotions and tool allowances, clothing allowances, all of those kinds of things that affect each employees experience working at the uni.

Uh the other thing that's important to kind of know is the grievance process, grievance and arbitration procedures are all set out through these contracts, and so what happens when the union disagrees with something that the muni does?

What are the steps we have to take?