City Council Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Dockets #1442 and #1443

Message and order to reduce the FY19 appropriation for the Reserve for Collective Bargaining by Six Hundred Forty-Four Thousand Four Hundred Twenty Dollars ($644,420.00) to provide for the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) for FY19 increases contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the Boston Public Health Commission and Local 888, SEIU-Counselors Union as well as salary increases for non-union BPHC employees.

Message and order approving a supplemental appropriation for the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) for FY19 in the amount of Six Hundred Forty-Four Thousand Four Hundred Twenty Dollars ($644,420.00) to cover the FY19 cost items contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the Boston Public Health Commission and Local 888, SEIU-Counselors Unit as well as the cost of salary increases for non-union BPHC employees. The terms of the SEIU Counselors contracts are October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017 and October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2020. The major provisions of the contracts include base wage increases of 2% effective the first pay period of January of each fiscal year. The agreements also include other benefits including a new step beginning 2019. Non-union salary increases are effective as follows: 2% in January 2017 and 2% in January 2018.

These matters were sponsored by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, and referred to the Committee on October 3, 2018.

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Mail Address:  Dockets #1442, 1443 City Council, City Hall, 5^th Floor, Boston MA  02201

Fax Number:  617-635-4203 Attn: Michelle A. Goldberg, Docket #1442, 1443

Committee Email:  CCC.WM@Boston.gov

Staff Email: michelle.a.goldberg@boston.gov   Staff Telephone:  617-635-4645

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