| June 27 | King County Council Labor Summit (9-12, Seattle Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave. at Broad St. and 1st) | |
| June 28 | Special Meeting for Wastewater TEA Members to discuss next Contract Issues (12-1pm, 2A/2B King Street Center) | |
| June 30 | CANCELLED - Board Business Meeting (12-1) | |
| July 4 | HOLIDAY | |
| July 7 | CANCELLED - Board Business Meeting (12-1) | |
| July 13 | CANCELLED - Regular TEA Meeting (12-1) | |
| July 14 | Board Business Meeting (12-1pm, 4G, King Street Center) | |
| July 21 | Board Business Meeting (12-1pm, 4G, King Street Center) | |
| July 28 | Board Business Meeting (12-1pm, 4G, King Street Center) |
The County Council holds its annual Labor Summit (a meeting of the Council focusing on labor concerns) on Monday, 6/27 at 9 a.m. Any TEA member is welcome to attend this, but you must do so on your own time. This is an opportunity to meet and hear from County Councilmembers and various union representatives.
Please plan on attending a special meeting the Board has set up (with planning by facilitator Martha Tuttle, Wyatt Wood and Eric Mandel) to review and discuss what issues you want the Negotiating Team to consider during upcoming new contract negotiations with the County, which will commence sometime near the close of the current salary negotiations that will apply to our existing contract.
Please plan to attend and participate - WE NEED YOUR VOICE AND IDEAS - this is your chance to get ideas out on the table and to hear what others are suggesting early on. Members said they wanted more direct input and discussion, so here's a chance!
Also, we would like a representative from each of the work groups to serve on two advisory teams (one each for WW and Transit) who will:
Scheduled meetings have not been determined yet, but once contract negotiations begin, you can generally anticipate meeting semi-weekly. Negotiation sessions are under the paid release time protection in our contracts; Team meetings will likely meet at lunchtime. Please contact Eric Mandel, TEA President, ASAP at eric.mandel@metrokc.gov or 684-1206 if you are interested in being a Bargaining Team member.
Approximately sixteen members met at lunch on June 21st to discuss potential issues for current transit negotiations on a new contract. Eric Mandel led the discussion, which focused on understanding and discussing those issues previously identified in the ranking form sent out earlier by Council Chair Nancy Gordon, and brainstorming further ideas. Another half dozen suggestions will be incorporated into a revised ranking form going out to Transit members within the next day or two. The TEA Transit Bargaining Committee members also participated - thanks to all who attended!
P.S.: The next meeting with County negotiators is June 30th.
Wastewater staff have been informed of the financial status of the Division in relation to stated productivity targets, and that, despite significant (~$9 million) savings in the budget, that the stricter productivity target wasn't reached for 2004. Don Theiler has asked the various WW union representatives (including TEA President Eric Mandel) to help wrestle with this issue. The union/management group agreed to create a special Productivity Technical Review Committee to achieve several specific goals, including:
We are fortunate to have two very capable members to represent TEA on this Committee, Paul Galeno and Peggy Leonard. They will be getting into the hard details of this program and helping propose improvements, and we are grateful for their willingness to tackle this on TEA's behalf.
Eric Mandel, President
Roger Browne, 1st Vice President
Dave Crippen, 2nd Vice President
Patty Overby, Secretary
Eric Davison, Treasurer