Bargaining Session Report
We met again across the (Zoom) table with the Oakland team on Wednesday, June 9, 2021.
Before going into what happened this week, a note about the process: The final goal of bargaining is to reach a Tentative Agreement which will then be submitted to our membership for ratification. Along the way, both sides may reach agreement on one part of the overall agreement and tentatively agree on, or “TA,” that item.
This week, we made a TA with Oakland’s team to leave the following unchanged: Articles I, III, VI, XXII, XXIII, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, and XXXIII and Appendices C, D, E, F, H, and J.
Oakland responded to two of our initial proposals and introduced one of their own:
- Additions to the groups protected from discrimination. Oakland had some small modifications to what we proposed on May 27. We accepted their counter-proposal, thus a TA was reached on this item.
- Arbitration initiation. Oakland made a counter-proposal to our May 27 proposal to expedite arbitration and create a more diverse list of arbitrators. We will review their counter-proposal and respond at a later date.
- Personnel records. Oakland proposed some wording changes to Appendix G: Location of Personnel Records. The proposed changes are administrative in nature and do not change the types of records kept. We will review their proposal and respond at a future date.