PORT OF SEATTLE
MEMORANDUM
COMMISSION AGENDA
Item No.
5d
Date of Meeting
September 12, 2011
DATE: September 7, 2011
TO: Tay Yoshitani, Chief Executive Officer
FROM: Lisa Hornfeck, Manager, Labor Relations
SUBJECT: Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Port of Seattle and the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 46,
representing Electronic Technicians.
ACTION REQUESTED:
Request authorization for the Chief Executive Officer to execute a new Collective Bargaining
Agreement (CBA) between the Port of Seattle and the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Local Union No. 46, representing Electronic Technicians covering the period from
June 1, 2011, through May 31, 2014. The total additional cost to the Port for the first year of the
contract is $ 79,281.28 for total wage increase and $7,948.80 for health and welfare, for a total
overall increase for year one of $87,230.08 covering all employees.
The estimated additional cost for wages and benefits of year two of the contract is $121,300.36,
and year three $124,939.37. The total estimated increased cost to the Port for wages and benefits
for duration of the three-year contract is $333,469.81.
BACKGROUND:
This agreement covers forty-six (46) Electronic Technicians in Aviation Maintenance.
The current proposal is a three (3) year agreement.
SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT:
Term of the Agreement
June 1, 2011 – May 31, 2014
COMMISSION AGENDA
Tay Yoshitani, Chief Executive Officer
September 7, 2011
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Wages
Effective June 1, 2011, this Collective Bargaining Agreement shall provide the following:
Effective June 1, 2011: 2% hourly wage increase, to $41.01 per hour
Effective June 1, 2012: Base wage rates shall be increased by the sum of one-hundred
percent (100%) of the percentage increase in the Consumer Price
Index for Seattle with a minimum increase of not less than zero
percent (0%) nor more than six percent (6%).
Effective June 1, 2013: Base wage rates shall be increased by the sum of one-hundred
percent (100%) of the percentage increase in the Consumer Price
Index for Seattle with a minimum increase of not less than zero
(0%) nor more than six percent (6%).
Pension Plan
Pension rates remain consistent with the prior Agreement and there is no increased cost to the
Port.
Effective June 1, 2011, this Collective Bargaining Agreement shall provide the following:
Port contribution to the IEBW Pacific Coast Pension Plan shall be fifty cents ($0.50) for all
hours compensated.
Port contribution to the Puget Sound Electrical Workers Pension Trust shall be three dollars
and fifty cents ($3.50) for all hours compensated.
Port contribution to the Local 46 I.B.E.W. Retirement Annuity Plan shall be two dollars
($2.00) for all hours compensated.
Health and Welfare
The parties agreed to remove health care maintenance of benefits language, and share
responsibility for future health care cost increases. This Collective Bargaining Agreement shall
provide as follows:
Employees shall continue to be eligible for benefits under the Puget Sound Electrical
Workers Health and Welfare Trust Fund.
COMMISSION AGENDA
Tay Yoshitani, Chief Executive Officer
September 7, 2011
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Effective June 1, 2011, through September 30, 2011: Port contributions to this plan shall
be seven dollars and twenty cents ($7.20) for each hour worked for each employee.
The parties agreed to freeze the health and welfare rate at $7.20/hour for the first two
years of the contract.
o This is consistent with the rate per hour contained in the prior Agreement and will
not increase costs to the Port.
o The cost to the Port is an approximately $1,101.60 per employee per month
($7.20/hour*153 hours).
Effective October 1, 2011 – May 31, 2014: Port contributions to this plan shall be seven
dollars and twenty cents ($7.20) for each hour compensated for each employee, with a
monthly contribution cap of 155 hours.
o The parties agreed to change from hours worked to compensated hours with a cap
in order to create a uniform monthly contribution rate.
o The cost per employee will be $1116.00 per employee per month, an increase of
$14.40 per employee per month ($7.20/hour*155 hours).
Future increases to the $7.20 hourly contribution base rate shall be shared by the Port and
the employee in the following way:
The employee will contribute 50% of any hourly increase up to 10% of the total
hourly base rate and the Port will contribute 50% of any hourly increase.
Once employee contributions have reached 10% of the total hourly base rate,
future increases shall be split 10% paid by the employee and 90% paid by the
Port.
The employee’s share of the monthly contribution will be a pre-tax deduction
subject to the monthly contribution cap of 155 hours.
Other Changes
None.
OTHER DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS REQUEST:
Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Port of Seattle and the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 46, representing Electronic Technicians.
PREVIOUS COMMISSION ACTIONS OR BRIEFINGS:
None.
