If you click on the article name you will see the Tentative Agreements with track changes.

Changes Made After October 1, 2024

Article 7 Hours of Work 

• Allows overtime exempt employees to accrue exchange time when working in excess of 45 hours in a week.
  
  

Article 17 – Suspended Operations 

• Allows for additional work assignments, including telework, during periods of inclement weather.

Article 18 – Miscellaneous Leave 

• Removes the four-month waiting period for use of Personal Leave Days.

Article 20 Commute Trip Reduction and Working Remotely 

• Requires colleges to maintain telework policies that, at a minimum, provides a timeframe to respond, denials will be made in writing, and an appeal process will be established.

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Employer MOU (X) Classified Staff Meeting 

• Provides 1 paid Union meeting each fiscal year.​

MOU XY Ad Hoc Focus Group

• A focus group will be established to evaluate salaries for the Program Specialist and Fiscal Analyst series.  The focus group will consist of representatives from WPEA, College Administration, and OFM.​

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Changes made prior to October 1, 2024

All articles, appendices, and MOU’s previously tentatively agreed to prior to October 1, 2024.

Article 2 – Non-Discrimination

• Updates section to include references to DEI and belonging.

Article 4 – Hiring and Appointments

• Requires employer to offer additional work to cyclic employees before completing work through other means.

Article 7 – Hours of Work

• During certain periods of the academic year, overtime-exempt employees will have absences with pay approved when working extraordinary or excessive hours.

Article 12 – Vacation

• Updates the vacation accrual schedule for years one through four to one hundred thirty six hours.

Article 13 – Sick

• Updates definitions of family members
• Clarifies when the employer can close due to health related reasons
• Clarifies RCW for when medical clearance certificates may be required

Article 17 – Suspended Operations

• Provides language requiring employers to maintain teleworking policies and procedures 
• Encourages employees to coordinate with supervisors when the college is open but roads are hazardous

Article 18 – Miscellaneous Leave

• Expands bereavement to include loss of pregnancy 
• Expands bereavement to include certain individuals who regularly reside in the employee’s home
• Adds new category of leave to receive vaccinations during a declared state of emergency
• Adds new category of leave for employees who are displaced from their home due to wildfires

Article 20 – Commute Trip Reduction, Parking, and Working Remotely

• Requires employers to maintain a telework policy and procedure.

Article 21 – Safety and Health

• Requires the college’s Safety, Security and Emergency Management Council representative to attend Labor Management Communication Committee meetings

Article 23 – Uniforms, Tools and Equipment

• Provides footwear allowance up to $225 each biennium for specific job classifications requiring Personal Protective Equipment 

Article 39 – Union Activities

• Increases to 8 the number of employer paid release days for successor agreement bargaining

Article 42 – Compensation

• Provides for general wage increases of 3% the first year of the biennium, and 2% the second year of the biennium
• Establishes an $18 starting wage for all salary ranges, with range 34 as the new starting range.  Employees in ranges 33 and below will be reassigned to range 34
• Provides for targeted increases due to issues of compression, inversion, recruitment or retention
• General language updates for consistency

Appendix X, XX and M represent the state’s final offer of salary increases for specific job classifications.  The increases identified would be in addition to the general wage increases of 3% and 2%.

Appendix X adjusts the salary ranges to reflect an statewide minimum wage of $18.

Appendix XX adjusts salary ranges to mitigate the impacts of compression or inversion due to the increase to an $18 minimum wage

Appendix M adjusts salary ranges to remedy impacts of recruitment, retention or general class plan maintenance

Current Contract Language

• ARTICLE 1
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• ARTICLE 8
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• ARTICLE 11
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• ARTICLE 31
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• ARTICLE 33
• ARTICLE 34
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• ARTICLE 41
• ARTICLE 43
• ARTICLE 44
• ARTICLE 45
• ARTICLE 46
• ARTICLE 47
• ARTICLE 48
• ARTICLE 49
• ARTICLE 50
• APPENDIX A
• APPENDIX B
• APPENDIX C
• APPENDIX D