Your CAPS-UAW Local 1115 Bargaining Committee met with the State yesterday, June 25, 2024, and was able to secure the following wins at the bargaining table:
- 3.25 Employee Donated Release Time Bank: Tentatively Agreed To! This section allows for the union and the state to meet to establish an employee donated release time bank. This union release time bank would allow State Scientists to donate their leave credit to the union so that other State Scientists can use that time for union business that is necessary to be performed during work hours (e.g., for the entire Bargaining Committee to meet and confer with the State on a single Department’s policy). [Reminder: Tentative Agreements, or TAs, still need to be ratified by the membership in an up-or-down ratification vote adopting the entire contract.]
- 2.18 Geographic Pay Differential: The State’s counter adopts language from our proposal package that State Scientists whose reporting location is within certain high-cost Bay Area counties would receive a $250 pay differential under this proposal.
- 2.19 Longevity Pay Differential: The State indicated they were amenable to our concept for State Scientists to receive 2, 3, 4, 5.5% pay differentials for 17-20+ years of state service under a phased approach.
Your CAPS-UAW Bargaining Committee continues to work with the State in good faith to reach a fair contract for State Scientists on these outstanding sections:
- 2.1 Salaries: The State held to their previous counter: General Salary Increase (GSI) of 3% upon ratification, 2% in 2025, and 2% in 2026 combined with Special Salary Adjustments (SSA) upon ratification to increase the maximum salary ranges of employees by classification, in 4 groups: 5% for classifications in group 1, 5% for classifications in group 2, 8% for classifications in group 3, and 12% for classifications in group 4. See details on this table.
- 2.13 One-Time Retention Payment: The State held to their previous proposal ($3,000 for all State Scientists + $500 for all scientists at CALFIRE and CDPH) but relented on it being grievable up to level 4 (CalHR level).
- 5.1 Health, Dental, Vision: The State continues to hold to their previous rollover proposal, essentially maintaining the status quo 80/80 State health care benefits contribution formula.
Your CAPS-UAW Bargaining Committee is currently assessing next steps and weighing options carefully as we prepare our next counter proposal package. The next scheduled meeting with the State is on Wednesday, July 3. Additional bargaining dates are scheduled with the State on July 18 and July 26.
CALL TO ACTION
For us to win pay equity, CalHR and the Governor need to see your collective power! Take 30 seconds to add yourself to the photo petition! Over 1,000 of your colleagues have already signed on! And we’re nearly halfway there! Once a majority of rank-and-file state scientists sign on to the photo petition, the Bargaining Committee and the Contract Action Team (CAT) will publish it and show this administration what collective power looks like! Our power is in our participation, so take action today!
Here is a QR code to the photo petition so you can scan it with your personal device and participate right now!
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In solidarity, Your CAPS-UAW Bargaining Committee Jacqueline Tkac. Itzia Rivera, Monty Larson, Justin Garcia, Steven Sander, and Robert Haerr
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