On September 30, 2011, AFSCME Council 72's Bargaining Team gathered in Jefferson City to sign the new Master Contract. The new contract has a number of benefits for Missouri state workers including a 2% wage increase in the 2013 fiscal year upon appropriation by the legislature, binding arbitration, and additional measures to increase cooperation in finding ways to provide the best, most cost effective public services.
Below, please find a link to the Master Contract effective October 15, 2011 for AFSCME Council 72 and the State of Missouri for the Craft and Maintenance and Direct Care Bargaining Units.
Click here to download the contract.
We are making progress at the bargaining table. For more details see your bargaining team member.
Now we need to speak loud and clear about the issue that affects us and the service we provide. Take action at your facility so the state gets the message: NO MANDATORY OVERTIME.
“It will take all of us to come together and fight for the contract we deserve. Sign up if you aren’t already a member- we can’t fight mandatory overtime without you!” -Van Bolden, Bargaining Member- St. Louis
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The state has not put in place any privatization protections during contract negotiations, even as it continues to turn over state services and facilities to private companies. Mid-Mo in Columbia and Western Missouri MHC are recent examples. The state announced Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric is the next target and it is feared that part of SEMORS will be privatized. All DMH facilities operate under the threat of privatization.
We will fight privatization at the bargaining table, at the workplace, in the legislature and in the public arena. We have jobs worth fighting for – and services worth protecting.
Find out what’s being done and what you can do to protect our jobs
from privatization. Let’s keep the heat on the administration.
Arbitration is a widely-accepted method used across the country to resolve workplace problems. However, at the Oct. 6 bargaining session the state resisted having an unbiased individual decide on issues and instead continue to let agency heads have the final say in disputes. This is unacceptable and we will continue to fight to bring fairness to the workplace.
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