{"id":304,"date":"2011-12-05T13:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T21:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=304"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:51:14","slug":"largest-city-union-approves-contract-that-includes-wage-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/largest-city-union-approves-contract-that-includes-wage-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest City Union Approves Contract That Includes Wage Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Assistant City Manager Michael Morales \u2013 509-575-6175<br \/>\nCommunity Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 509-901-1142 \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:rbeehler@ci.yakima.wa.us\">rbeehler@ci.yakima.wa.us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The largest union within the City of Yakima, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (&#8220;AFSCME&#8221;) Local 1122, has approved a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the City of Yakima that includes a pay freeze in 2012. The new contract was approved by more than 60% of the AFSCME members who voted on it.<\/p>\n<p>With 2012 included, AFSCME members will have agreed to freeze wages three years in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The new contract also creates a lower tiered compensation plan for new employees and more than doubles out-of-pocket costs employees pay for health insurance premiums and deductibles. Additionally, amended language in the new agreement makes it easier for the City to contract for services in the future.<\/p>\n<p>AFSCME represents more than 280 City employees.<\/p>\n<p>The AFSCME contract will be presented to the Yakima City Council for formal approval on December 13, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The City is still negotiating terms of new contracts, including a pay freeze, with the Yakima Police Patrolman&#8217;s Association (&#8220;YPPA&#8221;) and with Yakima Transit employees (who are also represented by AFSCME). However, the City&#8217;s negotiations with the International Association of Fire Fighters (&#8220;IAFF&#8221;) have reached impasse and the two sides have requested mediation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/AFSCME-Approves-New-Contract-12-6-11.pdf\">Largest City Union Approves Contract That Includes Wage Freeze (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Assistant City Manager Michael Morales \u2013 509-575-6175 Community Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 509-901-1142 \u2013 rbeehler@ci.yakima.wa.us The largest union within the City of Yakima, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (&#8220;AFSCME&#8221;) Local 1122, has approved a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the City of Yakima that includes a pay freeze in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}