Unit 14

State breaks promise to printers

Updated 10:30 a.m., July 17

Department of Personnel Administration (DPA) negotiators are refusing to honor a requirement – from the 2006 contract – to perform a study on the digital print operator 2 classification, claiming Wednesday it is no longer necessary.

The state agreed to perform the study, intended to create a digital operator 3 classification, but the DPA failed to keep their promise. On Wednesday, the state announced it wants to eliminate the study as part of an overall human resource modernization plan.

“They are using this modernization scheme to avoid fulfilling a promise to our members,” said bargaining unit chair Al Troyer. “In June the state told us they were considering this proposal and could prioritize this study because they owed it to us from 2006. Now they are trying to pull it off the table.”

The state also signed two tentative agreements with Trade Printers on Wednesday, including continuing the pay differential for an M-1000 press operator and deleting language referring to the printing trades specialist series.

Both sides are scheduled to meet again on July 21.

Unit 14 signs deal on pay periods

Updated 10:30 a.m., July 15
Our Unit 14 bargaining team and state negotiators signed four tentative agreements Monday, including a provision to retain the twice-monthly negative pay periods that we won in 2006 after a long struggle at the Office of State Publishing.

“This is essentially rollover language but this is really important for our members,” said Unit 14 Chair Al Troyer. “We’re all very happy with getting paid on the 15th and 30th of each month.”

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Unit 14 signs seven tentative agreements

Updated 12:30 p.m., June 23

Our Unit 14 team met with state negotiators all day Sunday, signing seven tentative agreements, including extending the currently required notice of 10 working days for shift changes. Most of the tentative agreements dealt with language that was carried over from the 2006 contract with minor changes. This includes articles dealing with overtime assignments, personal leave and reimbursement for protective clothing and driver’s licenses.

Both sides exchanged 25 proposals on Sunday with our team passing 16 new proposals to the state on Sunday, while the state submitted nine counter proposals. Both sides are scheduled to meet again Tuesday.

‘We need the state to get serious’

Updated 3:30 p.m., June 20

Unit 14 negotiators bargained with the state through the evening Monday presenting nine proposals and signing one tentative agreement.

“We’ve made good progress by signing tentative agreements for everything we fought so hard for in ‘06,” said Mike Lopez, Unit 14 chair. “But now we need the state to get serious about our new contract.”

Unit 14 Bargaining Unit Negotiation Council (BUNC) is asking that all Unit 14 members send a message to the state telling them to send a negotiation team that is serious, is prepared and is ready to work to accomplish the goal of a contract by June 30. The BUNC will be at all worksites collecting petitions this week and next.

Unit 14 will resume negotiations when they return to the table on Sunday.

This time, the state OK’s union bug

Updated 10:30 a.m., June 13

Unit 14 and the state signed six tentative agreements Thursday, including language to keep the SEIU Local 1000 “union label” on all print jobs performed by Unit 14 printers. All six tentative agreements carry over language from the 2006 contract.

In 2006, the state tried to force Local 1000 to drop the union bug on printed materials, but this year it was the first agreement signed by both sides.

“We had to fight to keep our union label last time,” said Al Troyer, alternate vice chair of Unit 14. “We think it was great that the state signed it first for us this time.”

Another important tentative agreement approved by negotiators was reimbursement for education costs for upward mobility.

“Upward mobility and training language is a really big deal for us,” Troyer said.

Unit 14 Tentative Agreements

Your contract contains numerous articles that are specific to the needs of Bargaining Unit 14 employees. During negotiations, our bargaining team reviews and approves each of those articles and reaches Tentative Agreement with the state as we work towards a fully approved contact.

Click on the links below to read and review Unit 14-specific articles that have been tentatively approved.

2.13 Union Information Packets	11.54.14 Printers 1 - (SCIF) - Skill Pay Differential
3.3.14 Union Label	11.55.14 Pay Differential - Sheetfed Offset Press...
5.12 Upward Mobility Joint Labor Management...	12.13 Tools Business Equipment Materials and...
5.13.14 Labor.Management Committee-OSP	12.14 Professional Dues
8.15 Personal Leave Program - Voluntary	13.5.14 Apprenticeship Program - BU 14 Printing...
8.22.14 Vacation Calendar	13.9.14 Letters of Instruction (LOI)/Work...
9.19 Light Limited Duty Assignments	13.11.14 Upward Mobility and Training
10.7 Protective Clothing	13.12.14 Posting of Vacancies and Job Opening
10.8.14 Protective Clothing Program at Office of State...	19.4 Meal Periods
10.9 Safety Equipment	19.13.14 Overtime Assignments for WWG 2...
10.19.14 Assaultive Behavior	19.16.14 Shift Changes
11.5.14 Pay Periods	21.3 Class A & Class B Commercial Driver's License
11.17 Recruitment and Retention Differentials
11.52.14 M1000 Skill Pay Differential	Side Letter 5 Usage of Print Trades Specialist Series

Processing the tentative agreements is time consuming. We are posting the information to the website throughout the day as quickly as possible.

Bargaining Unit 14 Election Results

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Includes employees at the Office of State Publishing where the state budget, bills and laws, and other state documents are printed; printers and graphic artists in individual departments.