Dubuque Professional Firefighters Local #353_Collective Bargaining Agreement 2012Masterpiece on the Mississippi
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
DATE: February 3, 2011
This is a three year contract.
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Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, City Attorney
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Rnady Peck, Personnel Manager
Michael C. Van Milligen
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SUBJECT: Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City of Dubuque and the
Dubuque Professional Firefighters Association, Local #353
Personnel Manager Randy Peck recommends approval of the three year Collective
Bargaining Agreement with the Dubuque Professional Firefighters Association, Local
#353 for the contract period beginning July 1, 2011.
In the first year of the contract, Fiscal Year 2012, the employees will receive no pay
increase; however, they will receive Martin Luther King's Birthday as an additional
holiday. With the subsequent addition of this holiday to non - represented employees,
City Hall will be closed on the third Monday of each January.
In Fiscal Year 2013 and Fiscal Year 2014, employees will receive a 2.5% raise in each
of those years. In addition, beginning in Fiscal Year 2013, employees will begin
receiving an increase in the amount of payout at retirement of their unused sick leave.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
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Dubuque
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Randy Peck, Personnel Manager
SUBJECT: Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City of Dubuque and the
Dubuque Professional Firefighters Association, Local #353
DATE: February 2, 2011
We have reached a three year agreement with the Dubuque Professional Firefighters
Association, Local #353 for the contract period beginning July 1, 2011. The changes to
the agreement are as follows:
Effective July 1, 2011
ARTICLE 9, NONDISCRIMINATION
Add sexual orientation to paragraph 2.
ARTICLE 24, HOLIDAYS
Add Martin Luther King's Birthday (third Monday in January) to the Holiday
Schedule.
ARTICLE 27, FUNERAL LEAVE
Add stepmother and stepfather to the definition of members of the
employee's family.
ARTICLE PREGNANCY LEAVE
An employee's pregnancy, child birth or related medical condition is
regarded as a temporary disability. The commencement and duration of
leave, availability of extensions, accrual of seniority and other benefits and
privileges, reinstatement, and payment under the City's health insurance,
disability insurance or sick leave plan, formal or informal, shall be applied
to a disability due to the employee's pregnancy, child birth or related
medical condition on the same terms and conditions as they are applied to
other temporary disabilities. Sick leave benefits, to the extent of an
employee's accumulated sick leave shall be granted, if requested by the
employee, for the period that the employee is disabled because of the
employee's pregnancy, child birth or related medical condition. The
employee may use other available paid leaves such as vacation,
compensatory time or casual day or a leave of absence without pay during
the period of temporary disability. A leave of absence without pay beyond
the period of temporary disability may be granted in accordance with
Article 29, LEAVE OF ABSENCE WITHOUT PAY, of this Agreement. The
employee is responsible for providing timely notice of the period of leave
requested. The City reserves the right to require that the employee's
disability resulting from pregnancy be verified by medical certification
stating that the employee is not able to reasonably perform the essential
functions of her position.
Effective July 1, 2012
ARTICLE 12, WAGE PLAN
Effective July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, the Wage Plan in effect
June 30, 2012, shall be increased by 2.5% across the board.
ARTICLE 26, SICK LEAVE
Delete the first sentence of Section 5 and all of Section 6 and insert the
following:
Any unused portion of sick leave shall accumulate from fiscal year to fiscal
year to a maximum of one - hundred twenty (120) sick days. Employees
will be paid 100% of accrued sick leave at retirement. Payment will be
based on the employee's regular (straight time /base) rate of pay at
retirement. Payment will be made bi- weekly over a five year period. In
order for a retiring employee to be eligible for such payment, he /she shall
have completed twenty (20) years of continuous service in a full time
position or retired as a result of a disability and must be eligible for
pension payments from the Municipal Fire and Police Retirement System
of Iowa Pension System immediately upon retirement. In the event a
retired employee dies before all of the unused sick leave is paid, such
payment will cease at the time of the retired employee's death. The
regular (straight time /base) rate of pay for employees assigned to a forty
(40) hour work week shall be based upon two thousand eighty (2,080)
hours per year and one (1) sick day shall equal eight (8) hours. The
regular (straight time /base) rate of pay for employees assigned to a fifty -
six (56) hour work week shall be based on two thousand nine hundred
twelve (2,912) hours per year and one sick day shall equal twelve (12)
hours.
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Effective July 1, 2013
ARTICLE 12, WAGE PLAN
Effective July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014, the Wage Plan in effect
June 30, 2013, shall be increased by 2.5% across the board.
The Agreement is consistent with the Agreement with the Teamsters Local Union No.
120 and the City Council's wage guidelines for the Fiscal Years beginning July 1, 2011,
July 1, 2012 and July 1, 2013.
I recommend that the Agreement be approved and that the attached Resolution be
adopted.
cc: Dan Brown, Fire Chief
Prepared by: Personnel Department; Address: City Hall, 50 W. 13` Street; Telephone: 563 - 589 -4125
RESOLUTION NO. 49 -11
APPROVING THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF
DUBUQUE, IOWA, AND DUBUQUE PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS
ASSOCIATION, LOCAL #353 AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO SIGN THE
AGREEMENT
Whereas, the Sixty -Fifth General Assembly adopted the Public
Employment Relations Act, Chapter 20, Code of Iowa; and
Whereas, the City of Dubuque is public employer within the meaning of
Section 3 (1) of the Public Employment Relations Act; and
Whereas, the Dubuque Professional Firefighters Association, Local #353,
is an employee organization within the meaning of Section 3 (4) of the Public
Employment Relations Act; and
Whereas, the Dubuque Professional Firefighters Association, Local #353,
submitted a request to bargain collectively on behalf of the employees within its
representation; and
Whereas, bargaining between the parties has occurred and an agreement
has been concluded.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. That the terms of the agreement be approved and the Mayor
authorized and directed to sign the collective bargaining agreement.
Attest:
Passed, approved and adopted this 7th day of February , 2011.
eanne F. Schneider, CMC, City Clerk
oy D. Buol, Mayor