Request for City Council Ratification of Two Amendments to current Collective Bargaining Agreements (DPPA and Teamsters (Bus Operators))City of Dubuque
City Council Meeting
Consent Items # 017.
Copyrighted
March 4, 2024
ITEM TITLE: Request for City Council Ratification of Two Amendments to current
Collective Bargaining Agreements (DPPA and Teamsters (Bus
Operators))
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending City Council ratify the attached referenced
Collective Bargaining Agreements (DPPA and Teamsters (Bus
Operators)) amendments.
SUGGESTED Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Approve
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
Description Type
MVM Memo City Manager Memo
Staff Memo Staff Memo
DPPAAmendment Supporting Documentation
Teamsters Amendment Supporting Documentation
THE C
Dubuque
DUjIBQTE
WAWca 914
Masterpiece on the Mississippi
YP pp
aoo�•o 13
zai7*20*�oi9
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Request for City Council Ratification of Two Amendments to current
Collective Bargaining Agreements (DPPA and Teamsters (Bus Operators)
DATE: February 29, 2024
Chief Human Resources Officer Shelley Stickfort is recommending City Council ratify
the attached referenced Collective Bargaining Agreements (DPPA and Teamsters (Bus
Operators) amendments.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
v
Micha I C. Van Milligen
MCVM:sv
Attachment
CC' Crenna Brumwell, City Attorney
Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager
Shelley Stickfort, Chief Human Resources Officer
THE CITY OF
DUB E
Masterpiece on the Mississippi
TO: Mike Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Shelley M. Stickfort, Human Resources Director
DATE: February 29, 2024
Dubuque
MI-Ameft Clly
wnc�+.ucrvr.. i rxa,r
2007-2012-2013
2017*2019
RE: Request for City Council Ratification of Two Amendments to current
Collective Bargaining Agreements (DPPA and Teamsters (Bus Operators)
To provide for vacation accrual and use processes more aligned with employee needs
and to better assure service and department operational needs the following
Amendments to two of the existing union/collective bargaining agreements (CBA's)
have been proposed to, and have been or are expected to be ratified by, the respective
unions:
Third Amendment to Dubuque Police Protective Association July 1, 2020 through
June 30, 2024: Revises Article XVI VACATION to define the hours of accrued
vacation per pay period, the maximum hours of accrual, and the rates of pay for
vacation hours.
2. Proposed, not yet ratified by union, Second Amendment to Teamsters Local No.
120 Bus Operators July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025: Revises Article 16
VACATIONS at Section 3 of the article to provide employee's the ability to
carryover accrued, unused vacation from year to year to a maximum vacation
accumulation cap of two hundred and forty (240) hours.
I am recommending that the Dubuque City Council ratify the above referenced CBA
amendments.
I respectfully request your support for this recommendation.
Attachments: The two Amendment documents
PROPOSED
THIRD AMENDMENT
To
Agreement
Between
The City of Dubuque, Iowa
and
DUBUQUE POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
July 1, 2020 — June 30, 2024
SECTION 1
Effective date to March 17, 2024, Article XVI — VACATIONS, of the Agreement is
amended to define the hours of accrued vacation per pay period, the maximum hours of
accrual, and rates of pay for vacation hours.
ARTICLE XVI
VACATIONS
Section 1
Employees covered by this Agreement shall accrue vacation leave on the following basis:
a) Employees who have completed less than three (3) years of continuous service
shall accrue vacation each year at the rate of 3.08 hours per pay period, for a total
of eighty (80) hours.
b) Employees who have completed three (3) years of continuous service, but less
than seven (7) years of continuous service shall accrue vacation each year at the
rate of 4.62 hours per pay period, for a total of one hundred twenty (120) hours.
c) Employees who have completed seven (7) years of continuous service, but less
than twenty-two (22) years of continuous service shall accrue vacation each year
at the rate of 6.16 hours per pay period, for a total of one hundred sixty (160)
hours.
d) Employees who have completed twenty-two (22) or more years of continuous
service shall accrue vacation each year at the rate of 7.70 hours per pay period,
for a total of two hundred (200) hours.
Vacation accrual increases on the employee's anniversary date.
Unused, accrued vacation may carry over from year to year to a maximum vacation cap
of two hundred and forty (240) hours.
Section 2
An employee shall receive vacation pay for each hour used at the employee's base rate
of pay, plus longevity pay, educational bonus, and shift premium at the time vacation
leave is used.
Section 3
2
Probationary employees shall not be granted vacation leave until the completion of the
Field Training Program, unless authorized by the Chief of Police or designee.
No vacation time shall be accrued during layoff due to lack of work when such layoff
exceeds thirty (30) days.
No vacation time shall be accrued during a personal leave of absence when such
personal leave of absence extends beyond sixty (60) days.
Section 4
There shall be no changes in the manner or method of scheduling and approving
vacations, unless mutually agreed upon by the Association and the Chief of Police.
Section 5
An employee who is absent from work due to illness or injury for a period not to exceed
two (2) months shall continue to accrue vacation time.
Section 6
Employees who have six (6) months or more continuous employment and who voluntarily
resign or enter military service and provide the City with a minimum of two calendar
weeks' notice, shall receive accrued and unused vacation to the last actual workday. The
accrued, unused hours shall be paid at the employee's base rate of pay at the time of
separation.
Section 7
Employees shall be given the opportunity to convert
vacation to compensatory time. The conversion option
period when vacations are scheduled. Employees me
hours to compensatory time. The maximum accrue
overtime pay shall be eighty (80) hours. The maximu
eighty (80) hours includes vacation hours (up to 40 1
hours) converted into compensatory time.
Section 2.
one (1) week (forty [40] hours) of
shall be made available during the
/ also convert sixteen (16) holiday
I of compensatory time in lieu of
n accrual of compensatory time of
ours) and holiday hours (up to 16
Each person signing this Third Amendment on behalf of a party represents and warrants
that the requisite power and authority to enter into, execute, and deliver this Third
Amendment on behalf of such party and that this Third Amendment is valid and legally
binding obligation of such party enforceable against it.
C
Section 3:
This Third Amendment represents the entire agreement between the parties with respect
to its subject matter and supersedes all prior discussions or understandings that the
parties may have with respect to the same.
Executed in Dubuque, Iowa as of the date first above written.
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA DUBUQUE POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
By, By.
Brad M. Mayor Kurf Rosenthal, President
Cavanagh
ATTEST: C�'�_ ''���
Adrienne Breitfelder, City Clerk
CI
PROPOSED
SECOND AMENDMENT
To
Agreement
Between
The City of Dubuque, Iowa
and
Teamsters Local Union No. 120 — Bus Operators
July 1, 2022 — June 30, 2025