Eliminates our ability to participate in candidate and issue campaigns by prohibiting the use of payroll-deducted funds for political purposes and by prohibiting unions from making political donations. This dangerous initiative recently qualified for the November 2012 ballot, solidifying our need to fight against it.

 Classification & Compensation Study Update

The AFSCME Negotiating Team for the Class/Comp Study has held three full-day workshops to review portions of the final report.  To date, the Team has yet to receive the final draft of the approximately 200 job descriptions that have been more than two years in the making.

Keeping in mind that the signed Project Plan required a collaborative effort, any unilateral attempt by district management to alter job description content beyond what was agreed to in the presence of management and AFSCME representatives in Focus Groups, Proofing Sessions and Validation Meetings; will be met with the most scrutinous revisions by Local 1902, and would be the cause for further delay. 

Complicating the matter is the district's expressed interest to intermingle the Class/Comp Study (which has a potential impact on only two-thirds of employees within the Unit) with terms and conditions of the successor MOU which applies to 100% of the employees within the Unit.  AFSCME Local 1902 continues to oppose combining the negotiations so not to leverage the potential adjustments to selected classifications against terms and conditions of the MOU. 

The Class/Comp Study has its own transactional exchange.  In consideration of salary adjustments for those classifications found to be below market or otherwise in need of adjustment, the district gets true job descriptions for the first time.  These much needed tools will facilitate recruitment of the people and skill-sets needed for today's and tomorrow's workforce.  Without such an exchange, the district will have to continue to rely upon circa 1980 "classification specifications" that generically define the work, which would continue to be cause for dispute between the district and AFSCME Local 1902 each time a recruitment bulletin veered substantially from the negotiated and signed circa 1980 classification specification.

It is AFSCME Local 1902's intent to eliminate these threats to collaboration, and to begin to design a method for identifying members to serve as subject matter experts to assist in the authentication of collaboratively developed job descriptions, and to validate market data via random sampling.