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268542 WHITE - CITV CLERK COI1flC11 ��(�� PINK - FINANCE CITY OF SAINT PAUL CANARY - DEPARTMENT Y1 BLUE - MAYOR File NO. C'� Counc ' e l ion , . Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date BE IT RESOLVED, That the final position of the City of Saint Paul to be submitted to the arbitration panel in regard to the Blue Collar Supervisory Unit, represented by Teamsters Local 320, as submitted by the Mayor through the attached letter, is hereby approved and the Mayor is hereby instructed to proceed to arbitration on this matter. COUNCILMEN Yeas Nays Requested by Department of: Butler �_ �n Favor Hozza Hunt Levine ° _ Against BY Roedler Sylvester Tedesco FEB � Q fg�� Form Appr v d by Cit o ey Adopted by cil: Date � Ce ied Pas y Cou�l Secretary � BY � Approv by Ylavor: Date � FEB ' �i �� Ap ro ed by Mayor for Su is on to Council By BY ' p�u F�819197 G I'1'Y ()t�' ��1I_\'T I�AISL ��+�� ■ �e:eeaa� O t�'I�I(i 1: O T' '1 I I 1: �l A 1"O 1� •�o��naeee ■��ae GEOAGE LATIMEA MAYOR February 8, 1977 Council President Robert Sylvester and Honorable Member of the City Council Seventh Floor, City Hall Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102 Dear Pre.sident Sylvester and Council Members : The administration of the City of Saint Paul has attempted to negotiate a settlement with the Manual and Maintenance (Blue Collar) Supervisors for the 1976 contract year. Negotiations with this unit consisted of one meeting, December 16, 1975 , prior to mediation despite the City' s willingness to meet and negotiate at any time . After four mediation sessions failed to produce agreement, this matter was submitted to the Director of Mediation Services for arbitration, and the Director has certified this matter to arbitration. A list of potential arbitrators was sent to both parties, and an arbitration panel has been chosen. Pursuant to Section 25 of the Saint Paul Administrative Code, I am hereby submitting the City' s final position on this arbitration matter to you for your approval. The proposed position to be submitted to the arbitrators in regard to the Blue Collar Supervisors is as follows . l. Contract Duration -- The City of Saint Paul seeks a two year contract. The contract period would be 1976 to 1977. Because of elapsed time a two year contract seems only reasonable. 2 . Wages -- The City' s position on wages in this arbitration is the same as the offer the City made during negotiations : The City will give the manual and maintenance supervisor the same increase that it gave to the major employee group supervised. The exact cents-per hour offer by title is listed on the attached Schedule A. ��O • Council President and -2- February 8, 197� Council Members �6�� 3. Insurance -- The City of Saint Paul proposes to insert insurance language in the contract to reflect a specific amount of money that will be paid towards this coverage, rather than saying that the city will pay for a certain percentage of the cost. This specific money figure will reflect the increased premium for the year of 1976 . Therefore, the members of the bargaining unit will have to pay for the 1977 and 1978 premium increases for this benefit. It is most important to note that the City is not reducing the insurance benefit or coverage in any way. We simply wish to bring the cost increases in premiums into the collective bargaining process rather than give such benefit away on an annual basis as we have done in the past. 4 . Mileage -- This issue deals with the clarification of present mileage language . 5. Retroactivity -- We propose that no retroactivity be given to this bargaining unit for the following reasons. -The failure of Local 320 to submit requests by June 1, as specified in the contract language. -The fact that Local 320 did not meet to negotiate until December 16, 1975, which made it virtually impossible to reach an agreement prior to the termination of the 1975 agreement. -The delays in scheduling subsequent meetings while the union awaited the outcome of other City settlements instead of conducting its own negotiations. We want to stress that every effort has been made to reach agreement with this bargaining group. The final offer and final position proposed by the City of Saint Paul is a fair and reasonable offer and compares with those offers and settlements reached with the groups that represent the subordinates of these supervisors. There is one point which we feel we must stress in this proposed arbitration position that we are submitting to you. This point deals with the matter of the proposed dollar limit for health and welfare benefits. As I stated above, the City of Saint Paul has no intention of reducing any of the benefits that the members of this group presently receive. However, the cost of such benefits in the past have routinely increased, and these increases have routinely been borne by the City of Saint Paul with absolutely no credit given to the City for such additional payment in the collective bargaining process. We simply propose to insert a collar limit in the contract language so that any future increases may be negotiated between the parties. Thus, all fringe benefits would then become incorporated into the collective bargaining process as well they should be. It is common practice to provide Council President and -3- February 8, 1977 • Council Members �� for specific dollar amounts for such insurance benefits in collective bargaining contracts. In fact, the City of Minneapolis has a dollar limit in its contracts for health and welfare programs for their employees. This request by the City of Saint Paul is reasonable, prudent and necessary. I submit to you that the proposal now before you is eminently fair and should not be rejected by this Council. Inasmuch as the final position of the City is a reasonable position , any action by this Council capitulating to the demands of the union could have disastrous effects not only with future bargaining with this particular union, but with the bargaining of all City unions. I therefore respectfully request that you approve the final position submitted by the City of Saint �aul a�d allow this matter to be submitted to arbitration for final determination. Sincerely, GEO E LATIMER Mayor GL:lt _ _ - _ .. _ _ _ . - _ ._ __ . _ __--_ _ _.. � �- � ,,, . 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