And
City
of
Interest
Arbitration
Arbitrator: Ronald Hoh
Date
Issued:
Arbitrator: Hoh; Ronald
Case #: 08092-I-89-00184
Employer:
City of
Date Issued:
CASE
NO. 8092-I-89-184
AND
RONALD
HOH
ASSOCIATION
ARBITRATION AWARD AND ORDER OF
CASE DISMISSAL
This proceeding arises pursuant to
(hereinafter
RCW) 41.56.030(6) and 41.56.450 et. seq. Being unable
to
agree upon the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement in
their
negotiations and in mediation, the above named parties
selected
the undersigned as neutral arbitrator, pursuant to RCW
41.56.470, to make
"written findings of fact and a written
determination
of the issues in disputes" with regard to ten
remaining
issues certified for arbitration by the
Employment Relations
Commission on
thereafter
scheduled for November 30 and December 1 and 2, 1989.
On November 28, the parties
agreed: 1) to waive the arbitration
panel
requirements of RCW 41.56.450; 2) that the undersigned
should
act as a mediator/arbitrator during the scheduled hearing
dates
rather than conduct an immediate arbitration hearing; and 3)
that
there were no statutory or constitutional impediments to
prevent
the parties from engaging in mediation/arbitration.
Mediation sessions were thereafter held by the
mediator/arbitrator
with the parties on November 30 and December 1,
1989. With
the assistance of the mediator/arbitrator, the parties
reached
total agreement on all outstanding issues on December 1,
1989. The parties agreed at
that time that the mediator/arbitrator
should,
upon receipt of completed and executed copies of the new
collective
bargaining agreement, memorialize the parties' voluntary
agreement
as an arbitration award, and dismiss the case in his
function
as a "state agency" in accordance with RCW 41.56.452.
Those executed copies of the
new collective bargaining agreement
were
received by the undersigned on
award
is thus rendered pursuant to RCW 41.56.452 and the parties'
agreement.
In their voluntary agreement reached on
parties
agreed to resolve the outstanding issues as follows:
1. UNION SECURITY (ARTICLE 4.2)
The City's proposal, with
the exception that the words
"An employee not a member of
the Association prior to
subject
to this Article" shall be inserted at the end of
that proposal.
2. WAGES (ARTICLE 6 AND APPENDIX
A) All bargaining unit
employees
shall receive the following wage increases:
5% increase retroactive to
5% increase effective
5% increase effective
5% increase effective
3. CALL BACK (ARTICLE 7) - City proposal.
4. VACATION (ARTICLE 9.1) - Current language.
5. LEOFF I SICK LEAVE (ARTICLE
11.8) - Status quo (
proposal).
6. BEREAVEMENT (ARTICLE 12.1) - Current language.
7. INSURANCE (ARTICLE 14)
AWC
plan for the period of 1/1/89-12/31/89.
KPS plan effective
The City agrees to pay the
entire single and dependent
premium
until
$7.00 per dependent per month,
up to a maximum of $21 per
month,
during the remainder of the contract term.
8. HOLIDAY OVERTIME (ARTICLE
10.3) - Current language, with
the following clarification:
"Detectives and other
employees on special assignments
shall
be required to take off the designated family
holidays
set forth in Section 2 of this Article, and
shall
not work on those days absent approval by that
employee's
immediate supervisor."
9. INTERVIEW GUIDELINES (APPENDIX
B) - Status quo, except
that this provision will be
incorporated into a new
contract
provision in Article 16.5.
10. TERM OF AGREEMENT (ARTICLE 22)
-
and including
The mediator/arbitrator hereby adopts the above described
agreement
of the parties as the arbitration award in this matter.
Pursuant to that agreement and
award, and in accordance with my
function
as a "state agency" under RCW 41.56.452, the above
captioned
matter is, therefore, dismissed.
RONALD
HOH
Arbitrator/Mediator