TIU has reached a tentative agreement with the Company. This agreement includes a “me-too” Memorandum Of Agreement (MOA) on wages and benefits. The mid-west area agreed to 3% for the first two years of the contract and 2.75% plus a COLA calculation for the third year of the contract. We expect to get something every similar to this. If the contract is ratified by August 8, the wages will be retroactive to July 19, 2009. The health care plan provides for fully funded preventive care and company-funded health reimbursement accounts that can be used toward any eligible health care expense. Employees will be sharing some of the health care costs through premiums, deductibles and coinsurance.
Employees can continue their HMO’s plans and it is expected the plan will be minimally changed from the HMO plans offered today.
Vacation days can be broken up into 2 hour increments with PDO’s into 1 hour increments. We retained the joint customer call back MOA along with the distribution of extra, weekend and holiday work.
New language to clarify when a holiday falls on Saturday — no one will be scheduled to work if the office is closed and the employee will have the option of an extra PDO or a six day pay.
A new monitoring and recording agreement (ULTRA), changes to the WIF MOA, and new funding for Horizon.
Leverage title for new hires. Also an agreement that service representative who want, to transfer to this new title, can and they will have retreat rights for 6 months.
Language added to clarify when an employee is called to jury duty, and the company will pay up to 2 union people who are in meetings for the purpose of bargaining the contract. The new Contract will now be available through the intranet and on the Unions website for access after work hours.
We will put a detailed summary of the tentative contract. We will be getting ratification ballots out within the next few days. We will have membership meetings and/or Alicia will be in the offices to answer any additional questions you may have.
