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ONA Management Bargaining Update 3 (June 20, 2025)

The County has had 2 bargaining sessions since the last bargaining update (linked below) - one on June 4th and on June 18th, 2025. 

June 4th, 2025 Recap: 

• THE UNION INTRODUCED NEW BARGAINING TEAM MEMBERS: 
  • Abby Wagner - ONA bargaining team
  • Kennedy Boehm - ONA bargaining team 
  • Leah Isaac - County bargaining team 
• UNION ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Appreciation for County’s flexibility - workdays provided under union business time 
  • Jocelyn Pittman will be taking over bargaining. Will need to change scheduling of bargaining dates. 
• UNION REQUEST TO COUNTY
  • Market Comparables 
• COUNTY PROPOSALS
  • Article 2 - Definitions 
    • Add “operationally” to essential employee definitions, removing managerial employee and supervisory definitions, adding existing lead nurse definition from compensation article. 
• UNION PROPOSALS 
  • Article 5. ASSOCIATION SECURITY, CHECK OFF AND BUSINESS
    • Counter 8 paid bargaining unit members 
    • 30 days notice for recruitment and retention trends discussion
  • Article 7. Holidays -  Last proposal by union
    • Add indigenous people’s day
    • Add day after thanksgiving 
    • Increase personal holidays to two versus one per fiscal year
    • Allow Juneteenth to carry over into the next fiscal year
    • All association employees who work holidays - in addition to premiums, will get holiday pay. They will be paid “holiday pay” for all additional hours worked on a holiday. If they work 2 shifts on a holiday - they get 2 holidays (1.0) under “holiday pay”, in addition to “holiday worked” (1.5) 
    • Termination or death - unused holiday hours will get paid out (same as vacation)
  • Article 9. Sick Leave  -  Last proposal by union
    • Accrue sick leave on all hours worked, including overtime and mandates
    • Reinstatement of sick leave accruals - extend to 365 days. 
    • Clarified FMLA/OFLA continuous leave verification is done by employee’s provider and may be repeated every 30 days.
    • Sick leave cash-out - in the event of death
    • Donations of accrued sick or vacation
    • Sick leave conversion into vacation hours (up to 40, no less than 40 in bank)
  • Article 10. Other Leaves  -  Last proposal by union
    • Bereavement - adding ability to take up to 14 work days of their own leave in conjunction with bereavement. Add loss of pregnancy, add pets. 
    • Court Appearance - impacts corrections health primarily. Requesting paid time for court appearances, preparation time and phone calls.

June 18, 2025 Recap: 

• Late start due to AM Training 
• Introduction of Jocelyn Pitman as new lead negotiator 
• COUNTY PROPOSALS
  • County advised articles currently sitting with them have a financial element or further assessment is needed and would like to assess holistically with other financial proposals pending from the union. 
• UNION PROPOSALS 
  • Article 17 - Same-day Reassignment 
    • Not allow for same day reassignment in CH (ONA claims it is virtually impossible without training while acknowledging it is not currently occurring). 
    • 30 minutes’ notice for same day reassignment
    • Allow employee to report directly to the site of the reassignment instead of first reporting to their regular worksite
  • Drug and alcohol
    • Accepting County’s housekeeping language.
    • Wants to remove language about last chance agreement not having grievance rights 
    • Proposing CCL on CDL section. 

Here is where we are today 6/18/2025: 

Articles TA’ed (Tentative agreement reached):

• Ground Rules (3/5/2025)

• MOA - Waiver of Minimum Time Served

• Article 1 Preamble - Current Contract Language - (3/26/25)

• Article 4 Management Rights - Current Contract Language - (3/26/25_

• Article 6 No Strike or Lock Out - Current Contract Language - (3/26/25)

• Article 13 Defense and Indemnification - Current Contract Language -(3/26/25)

• Article 23. Settlement Of Disputes - (6/18/25)

• Article 25 - Savings Clause and Funding - (6/18/25)

• Article 26 - Entire Agreement - (6/18/25)

Articles Open:

• Article 2. Definitions - - Last proposal by County

• Article 3. Recognition - No proposals to date

• Article 5. Association Security, Check Off And Business -  Last proposal by union

• Article 7. Holidays -  Last proposal by union

• Article 8. Vacation Leave - Last proposal by Union

• Article 9. Sick Leave  -  Last proposal by union

• Article 10. Other Leaves  -  Last proposal by union

• Article 11. Health And Welfare - No proposals to date

• Article 12. Workers’ Compensation - No proposals to date

• Article 14. Seniority, Layoff - Last proposal by County

• Article 15. Filling Of Vacancies - Last proposal by County

• Article 16. Hours Of Work - Last proposal by County

• Article 17. Same Day Reassignment - Last proposal by Union

• Article 18. Wages - No proposals to date

• Article 19. Performance Evaluation - Last proposal by County

• Article 20. Professional Staff Development - Last proposal by County

• Article 21. Employment Status - Last proposal by County

• Article 22. Corrective Action - Last proposal by County

• Article 24. General Provisions - Last proposal by Union

• Article 25. Savings Clause and Funding: 

• Article 26. Entire Agreement: 

• Article 27 - Termination - - Last proposal by County

• Addendum A. Salary Schedule For Ona Bargaining Unit  - No proposals to date

• Addendum B. Drug And Alcohol Policy - Last proposal by County

• Addendum C. Washington State Employees -  No proposals to date

Our next bargaining session is scheduled for July 3rd. 

Previous Bargaining Updates: