After nine months of intense negotiation with the UC, CX Teamsters have won our strongest-ever Tentative Agreement! Our new agreement delivers powerful wins for CX members, including a 37% compounded raise over five years, ratification and longevity lump sums, major wins on overtime, and more. This agreement locks in historic wage increases for Teamster workers while also protecting members from spiking healthcare premiums and parking costs. Our CX Bargaining Team is proud to UNANIMOUSLY recommend a YES vote on this agreement!
What we’ve won:
Wages:
- 37% total compounded raise over five years, including annual guaranteed across-the-board raises and guaranteed annual step increases of 2.2% for non-probationary, career employees—not based on merit or performance!
- $1,500 ratification lump sum bonus for all non-probationary, career CX employees—pro-rated for part-time employees.
- “Me Too” language guaranteeing that if non-represented staff get an annual increase greater than CX workers, our across-the-board raise will be increased to match!
- Even if you have or will reached the top of your salary range, non-probationary career employees will receive annual lump sums equal to the difference between their two highest salary steps in lieu of a step increase
Wage and ratification lump sum numbers differ for LBNL employees. Public Safety Dispatchers will continue to be driven by their existing side agreement.
Benefits:
- Maintained healthcare cost caps and secured a new monthly subsidy for Kaiser and Health Net Blue and Gold health plans for all pay bands!
Other Pay:
- An additional personal holiday for all employees.
- A minimum of two step increases for promoted employees.
- Shift differential rates increased for both campus and medical centers employees who work an established shift.
- $1,000 longevity lump sum for career employees who have or reach 20 years of full-time University service during the term of the agreement.
- Maintained annual parking rate caps based on work location.
Remote Work, Equity Adjustments, and Contracting Out:
- For the first time ever, we have won language on telecommuting/hybrid work for non-LBNL CX employees. CX employees will be subject to the terms of their location’s hybrid/telecommuting work policies, and these arrangements can be a subject of labor-management meetings for further negotiation.
- New language makes clear that a CX employee or the Union can request an equity adjustment and includes examples of information that can be submitted and considered for an equity increase.
- Shift bidding will now be based on seniority.
- The UC is now required to meet and confer to discuss the impact of contracting out our work, with disputes subject to the grievance and arbitration process.
New Technology:
- New language addresses the implementation of new technology in our workplaces, including artificial intelligence, so we can continue to fight to preserve human jobs.
Learn more at our CX Tentative Agreement Town Halls!
All members are invited to learn more about our agreement, what’s in it, and the ratification process at our Tentative Agreement Town Halls. Both meetings will cover the same agenda: join us at whichever is most convenient to you!
Tentative Agreement Town Halls
Monday, June 22
12:00 PM and 6:00 PM
On Zoom – check your email for the link to register!
Only members will be able to vote to ratify our Tentative Agreement. If you’re not already a member of Local 2010, become one today! This agreement was only possible due to the power and solidarity of our Union membership. Help us lock in our guaranteed raises and strengthen our Union for every fight to come: sign your membership form today!
In Solidarity,
Our CX Teamsters Bargaining Team
Deborah Reed, LBNL
Tiffany Amber Rodriguez, UC Berkeley / UCOP
Kat Lambert, UC Davis/ANR
Dianna Sahhar, UC Irvine
Jennifer Carrero, UC Merced
Bernardette Williams, UCSF
Maia Bailey, UCSF
Marina Jurich, UCSD Campus
Robert Sandoval, UCSD Health
Deateria Dickinson, UCSB
Sarah Harker, UCSC
Katherine Colato, UCLA Campus
Jason Perez, UCLA Health
Raymond Gomez, UC Riverside / UCPATH
Jason Rabinowitz, Secretary-Treasurer and Lead Negotiator
Catherine Cobb, President
Melissa Munio, First Chair
Alex Vermie, Research Analyst
