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Update on MOU Negotiations and Notice of Vote for Ratification

Andres Alva Cardenas
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Date: April 26, 2023
To: AFSCME Local 127 Members
From: AFSCME Local 127 Bargaining Team
Re: update on MOU negotiations and notice of vote for ratification

 

Hello AFSCME Local 127 Members,

WE DID IT!

After many long hours at and away from the negotiating table beginning November 2022, the Bargaining Team of AFSCME Local 127 and the City of San Diego have come to a “Total Package Tentative Agreement,” or a tentative MOU. Now, we need you – the members of AFSCME Local 127. We need you to vote “YES” to ratify this hard-fought and intensely negotiated MOU on Wednesday, 5/10 @ the General Membership Meeting (GMM). 

Here are some of the principal terms of this MOU:

Economic Proposals

General salary increases

  • 21% over 3 years for all 2,016 bargaining unit members

Date:

7/1/23

1/1/24

7/1/24

1/1/25

7/1/25

Increase:

5%

 

5%

4%

2%

5%

 

SSAs/equity increases

  • 6-10% for 1,244 or 62% of bargaining unit members or 56 job classifications 
  • [see attachment below for more details] 

Retirement

  • general salary and SSA/equity increases pensionable income

 

Flex benefits

  • approx. 15% over 3 years

 

 

Non-Economic Proposals

Staffing levels

  • addressed vacancy rate of 23% through increases

 

Contracting out

  • Narrowed scope and required more accountability

 

AR 75.12

  • eliminated “disciplinary matrix”
  • created new “Category 1A” 
  • changed to point system

 

 

That is “THE UNION DIFFERENCE!”

For these reasons and more, we need you to vote “YES” to ratify this hard-fought and intensely negotiated MOU on Wednesday, 5/10 @ the GMM.On behalf of your Bargaining Team of AFSCME Local 127, we thank you in advance for your support!

 

Sincerely,

/s/ Tim Douglass

Tim Douglass, President

/s/ Andres Alva-Cardenas

Andres Alva-Cardenas, Business Representative

 

Rocky Rios, Vice President
Francisco Flores, Secretary Treasurer
Glenda Evans, Recording Secretary
Mike Alejo, Executive Board Member
Dan Willis, Executive Board Member
Linda Childress, Executive Board Member
Harold Guevara, Executive Board Member
Paul Garibay, Executive Board Member