CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Adopt the resolution authorizing execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Naperville and IBEW Local 196 representing the Naperville Water/Wastewater Utility employees
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DEPARTMENT: Legal Department
SUBMITTED BY: Dwight Pancottine, Labor and Employment Attorney
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
N/A
BACKGROUND:
The Naperville Water/Wastewater Utility has 49 employees in the positions of Utility Technician and Senior Utility Technician. They are represented for purposes of collective bargaining by IBEW Local 196 (“Union”). The collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”) between the City and Union expired on December 31, 2020. The City and Union have reached agreement on a successor CBA consistent with City Council authority, and that agreement has been ratified by the bargaining unit employees. It is attached to the Resolution document as Exhibit A.
DISCUSSION:
City Council authorized staff to negotiate a five-year agreement with a total wage increase of up to 12.5% over that period. The attached CBA contains the following economic terms:
Term: The agreement has a five-year term retroactive to January 1,2021 and terminates on December 31, 2025
Wage Rates Increases: Annual percentage wage increases for all employees covered under the CBA are as follows: 2.0% effective January 1, 2021, 3.0% effective January 1, 2022; 3.0% effective January 1, 2023; 2.0% effective January 1, 2024; and 0% effective January 1, 2025.
The remaining 2.50% of the City Council authorized wage increase was placed in an increase in shift differential pay, an increase in lead man pay, and into the new pay scale which reduced the number of job classifications from four to two.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The total cost of this agreement, not including the insurance plan design cost savings, for the five-year term of the agreement $409,511.