ATTENTION:
This is the Employer's original Proposal.
Do not jump off the deep end.
There are several more rounds of negotiations scheduled before a final agreement is reached.
At the end of negotiations on 4-2-08, both sides agreed to revamp and revise their proposals to better serve the needs of both sides.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the union office or the members of the negotiating committee. Please limit talking about negotiations at your place of employement to before or after work.
Again, this is the original proposal - this is not what was settled on or even what you might vote on. This is a proposal only. This is not the final version.
Arrowhead Retail Grocers Alliance
Employers’ Proposal – Grocery Unit
April 1, 2008
1. Article 1. – Intent and Purpose. Modify 1.2 to confirm the Employer’s right to deviate from the terms and conditions of this Agreement in an emergency.
2. Article 2. – Recognition.
a. Modify 2.1 to provide for up to two (2) additional employees per store (in addition to the store manager and bookkeeper) outside the bargaining unit and to provide that these employees can perform regular bargaining unit work.
b. Add new paragraph 2.6:
“Should the Union negotiate any term, provision, or condition in any collective bargaining agreement with an employer competitor to the employer signatory hereto, then the employer signatory hereto shall, at such employer’s sole and unfettered discretion, be able to adopt such term, provision, or condition as a term, provision, or condition of this Agreement. If a term, provision, or condition relating to the same subject matter already exists in this Agreement, then the signatory employer may elect, at its sole discretion, whichever term, provision, or condition the signatory employer deems most beneficial to the employer signatory hereto and such term, provision, or condition shall be substituted for the existing term, provision, or condition.”
3. Article 3. – Union Security. Modify 3.1 to provide for union initiation fee waiver for new employees under age 21 and over age 65.
4. Article 4 – Hours of Labor.
a. Modify 4.7 to reflect one (1) week schedule posting instead of two (2) week schedule posting.
b. Modify 4.7 to provide that day-off requests must be in writing and received no later than five (5) days prior to the time the work schedule is posted.
c. Modify fifth sentence of 4.7 to delete the phrase: “without loss of hours, based on seniority.”
5. Article 8 – Vacations.
a. Modify 8.8 to read:
“If a vacation week becomes available after March 1st and the employer determines such vacation time may remain available because it does not conflict with the business, that time shall be selected in order of seniority.”
b. Add to 8.8: “Employer may block out up to three (3) weeks per year during which no vacations shall be scheduled.”
6. Article 9 – Holidays.
a. 9.1 Delete Good Friday Pay
b. 9.1 Modify to read:
“In no event will an employee be required to work on two successive holidays on which the store is permitted to be open for business, provided the store can achieve, in the employer’s opinion, necessary staffing levels.”
7. Article 10 – Seniority.
a. Modify 10.5 to add “rejection of other duties or additional work” as examples of restricted availability.
b. Modify 10.5A to read:
“The employees’ schedules prior to the 1999-2002 contract that were affected as a result of combined seniority lists, shall continue. In the event a dispute arises concerning employee scheduling, the affected employees’ hours worked in the past 30 days shall be reviewed. If after excluding all hours attributable to staffing shortages such as employee quits, vacation coverage, or illness beyond one (1) day by the junior employee and unworked hours offered to but declined by the senior employee, the Employer will increase pay the complaining senior employee’s schedule to make up for the lost hours.”
c. Modify 10.7 to provide all full-time employees selected at management discretion.
d. Change 10.8 from “forty (40) hours per week” to “an average of forty (40) scheduled hours or more per week, Monday through Saturday, for any health insurance contribution period.”
e. Add to 10.8:
“Pay-in-lieu-of-vacation shall not be included in determining full-time or part-time status nor shall such pay be included in any benefit calculation.”
8. Article 12 – Employment Termination.
a. Modify 12.2 to make the probationary period 36 work shifts.
b. Modify 12.3 to clarify and define “intoxicated”
9. Article 15 – Health and Welfare and Pension.
a. 15.2 Contribution – Provide for employee co-pays equal to 25% of the monthly contribution rate for all employees participating in the health fund.
b. 15.2 Change full-time contribution requirement to provide for one (1) full-time contribution for a full-time employee married to another employee, whether full-time or part-time, with no additional contribution to be paid on behalf of the other spouse.
c. 15.2 Change to reflect that for a full-time contribution, a full-time employee must be “available to work for 150 hours” each “health insurance contribution period” instead of “month”
d. 15.3 Change to reflect that for a part-time contribution, a part-time employee must be “available to work for 90 hours” each “health insurance contribution period” instead of “month””
10. Article 18 – Funeral Leave. Modify 18.1 to add “grandchild” to definition of "immediate family."
11. Article 19 – Leaves of Absence
a. Modify 19.1 to provide that non-work related medical leaves of absence are available after twelve (12) months of continuous employment and to provide for weekly status notification after first three (3) months of medical leave.
b. Modify 19.9 to provide for one full week’s notice by employee of availability to return to work.
c. Add provision in 19.9 that employees on leave of absence must return for one (1) full week’s schedule before taking vacation or personal days following the end of the employee’s leave of absence.
12. Article 21 – Rate of Pay
a Add new 21.13 establishing provisional part-time employee (PPT) sub-classification with:
b. Add new 21.14 regarding scan coordinators (pricing clerks):
13. Article 21 – Rates of Pay and Addendum “A”. Discuss
14. Delete Addendum “B” (Red Circle)
15. Delete Letter of Agreement (employee scheduling)