Today, your AEU bargaining team engaged in direct bargaining with Executive Director Dave Low and DFO Keith Pace.
Agreement was reached on substantive non-economic language issues, focusing primarily on clarifying and finalizing the contract language on these issues.
Agreement was not reached on the primary economic issues, and it is our understanding that CSEA will be providing your AEU bargaining team with a written proposal for consideration by the AEU membership.
Your AEU team will be promulgating messages to the membership detailing information in response to frequently asked questions on the economic issues. These will include information about salary and the comparative labor market, medical benefits enjoyed by similarly situated employees in the comparative labor market, and a discussion about the strength of your pension plan and the cost of restoring the pension benefit formula to 2.275% per year of service and of eliminating the two-tier benefit structure currently in place.
Once your AEU bargaining team has received the written offer from CSEA, we will discuss its contents with the membership. In the meantime, arrangements are being made to schedule a membership meeting to review the offer. We hope to have the meeting in Visalia.
Stay strong and stay together.
In solidarity, there is strength.
Scott, Karen, Val, Debbie, Christopher and Carol
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