Template revised September 22, 2016.
COMMISSION
AGENDA MEMORANDUM
Item No.
8e
ACTION ITEM
Date of Meeting
January 24, 2023
DATE: January 24, 2023
TO: Stephen P. Metruck, Executive Director
FROM: Mikel O’Brien, Senior Director of Labor Relations
Matthew Bullock, Labor Relations Manager
SUBJECT: New Memorandum of Understanding between the Port of Seattle and the Seattle
Building and Construction Trades Council and its Affiliated Union; The International
Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 5, Local Union No. 300.
Total Port Cost Increase for the Duration of the Agreement: $20,800.00
ACTION REQUESTED
Request Commission authorization for the Executive Director to execute a new Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between the Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council and its
Affiliated Union, representing Painters employed at Aviation and Marine Maintenance covering
the period from January 29, 2023, through December 31, 2023.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Good faith bargaining between the Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council and its
Affiliated Union, and the Port of Seattle resulted in a fair memorandum of understanding
consistent with Port’s priorities.
There are currently twenty-two (22) Painters employed at the Port who regularly work for that
work at Aviation and Marine Maintenance.
This MOU supersedes the MOU by and between Port of Seattle and The International Union of
Painters and Allied Trades signed December 9, 2019. This MOU establishes new classification of
step 2 level Painter which will be the current Painter rate plus $2.00 per hour. This classification
will remain in effect through December 31, 2023. Full-time painters going forward shall receive
a 3-month bank for Health & Welfare premiums instead of a 6-mouth bank associated with the
Striping Agreement of Western Washington H&W, and the difference will be applied directly to
the WW Paint CBA wage rate.
This MOU is for eleven months covering the period from January 29, 2023, through December
31, 2023. The estimated total additional cost for wages and benefit increases over the term is
$20,800.00.
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Meeting Date: January 24, 2023
Template revised September 22, 2016; format updates October 19, 2016.
JUSTIFICATION
RCW Chapter 41.56 requires the Port of Seattle to collectively bargaining wages, hours and
conditions of employment with the exclusive bargaining representative designated by the
employees.
DETAILS
Term of the Agreement
January 29, 2023, through December 31, 2023.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
Wages
Classification
Current
Rate
Painter
$35.43
Painter 2
$37.43
The estimated total cost to the Port of Seattle for the duration of the contract is $20,800.00.
ATTACHMENTS TO THIS REQUEST
(1) Memorandum of Understanding
PREVIOUS COMMISSION ACTIONS OR BRIEFINGS
None.
