Thought readers might be interested in the “Collective Bargaining Agreement” that outgoing Algonquin Township Road Commissioner signed with Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.
I’ll run a couple of pages a day.
The comments should be interesting.
Seems still to be quite reasonable.
Bob always was a tough negotiator.
BY THE WAY IS IT TRUE THAT DURING THE ŔECENT WIND STORM GASSER TURNED HIS ÇELL OFF AND THE GROVE HAD TO SEND A COPY TO WAKE HIM UP TO ANSWER THREE CALLS FOR DOWN TREES?
That’s the rumor DON’T KNOW IF IT IS TRUE
“Bob always was a tough negotiator”
Thanks for making coffee come out my nose with that
Doodie living up to his name.
Fact is Bob treated his employees with respect.
You never heard him say drain the swamp.
It’s been quite common for gov employees seeking security against political games.
For some it’s easier to insult then to confront an issue, right 4eyes?
Says the notorious insulter.
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The ILRB certified the bargaining unit on April 10, 2017.
Yet to be revealed is the date the agreement was signed by both parties (labor & management).
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The policies in place prior to the agreement have not been revealed.
Thus, the taxpayers don’t know how this agreement changes the rules or the impact on cost.
The info is there already, Cal wants as many hate comments as possible before posting it here.
The political games continue.
Monday should be interesting rumor has it Gasser illegally cut all employees wages.
Its no wonder they joined a union
My guess is that Gasser is going to claim that the CBA was not entered into legally, and is therefore moot.
That might have something to do with why he got sworn in before his first day on the job and fired people immediately-he did not want to implicitly acknowledge that he recognized the new contract in any way.
I’m not a Gasser fan, but I wish him well if he uses this tactic.
Either the current (Andrew Gasser) or former (Bob Miller) Algonquin Township Road Commissioner could have posted the collective bargaining agreement on the Algonquin Township Highway Department website, but neither bothered to do so.
If Andrew does not “recognize” the CBA, why would he post it?
The collective bargaining agreement (cba) is a public document irregardless if it is legal or not.
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The drama between the outgoing voter elected Algonquin Township Road District Highway Commissioner (Bob Miller) and incoming Algonquin Township Road Commissioner (Andrew Gasser) continues.
The election was April 4, 2017.
The Algonquin Township Road District is a separate entity from the Algonquin Township.
The Algonquin Township Road District does not have a board, although its budget is approved by the Algonquin Township board.
The Algonquin Township does have a voter elected board.
It is very unusual in Illinois to have a local collective bargaining agreement that is not approved by a voter elected board.
This may be the first time a local collective bargaining agreement was not approved by a voter elected others.
If there are others, please inform.
This may be the first time a local collective bargaining agreement was not approved by a voter elected board.
Unless I missed it, the CBA doesn’t specifically state which holidays employees must be paid double time.
Illinois has some extra holidays in addition to the Feds – Lincoln’s B-Day, Friday after Thanksgiving, General Election Day.
Chicago also has Pulaski Day, but IDK if that is an official holiday in McHenry County.
If it’s not explicitly stated in the contract, I’m sure the union will demand double time on these days too.
If they holidays are not listed in the collective bargaining agreement somewhere, they should be.
This is one of the problems with collective bargaining agreements.
If something is not clearly defined, it is open to interpretation, i.e. a grey area.
Then if the parties cannot agree, an arbitrator makes a binding decision, or it goes to the courts.
In Illinois due to the way the laws are written and case law, that tends to favor the unions.
The unions don’t get everything they want, but they do get enough of what they want, to result in very generous salaries and benefits.
Just for one example look at the third and fourth sentences in the cba in the article:
“….holidays – actual and observed.”
What is the difference between an actual holiday and observed holiday?
A township has actual holidays?
And observed holidays?
Have never seen a holiday schedule indicating actual or observed.
Someone knows the intent of that sentence.
Does the average taxpayer know the intent of that sentence?
Is that a grey area?
It is endless with these collective bargaining agreements.
And when it comes time to renegotiate the agreements, the state law does not even have the courtesy to mandate government provides the taxpayer with a change document / redline agreement indicating the changes that were made.
The taxpayer does not get to see the agreement before it is approved.
If the taxpayer was able to see the agreement before it was approved, the taxpayer would not have been surprised with this new Algonquin Township Road District cba, assuming there was a watchdog for the district, and the newspapers published the agreement was posted for public review.
Better yet, the taxpayer should be able to vote whether or not to approve the agreement.
Actual holiday is Xmas, Easter, etc etc
Observed is when the holiday falls on a non working day like sunday they observe it monday. Or at least most unions and governments do.
I bet Bob gave then every holiday he could think of, even take your sons in law to work day.
Triple time.