AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing execution of a collective bargaining agreement between The City of Seattle and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District Lodge 160, Local 79; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Agenda Item three Council Bill 1129878 relating to the employment authorized execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Seattle and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Wide 160 Local 79 and ratifying confirming certain prior acts. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I moved to pass Council Bill 119878. Is there a second? Can. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill as sponsor of the bill. I'll address it first and then open the floor to comments. This Council bill authorizes the execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Seattle and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 160 Local 79. The parameters of this collective bargaining agreement were approved by the Labor Relations Policy Committee, and its key agreements include the following terms. The agreement is a three year agreement on wages, benefits, hours and other working conditions for the time period of January 1st, 2019 through December 31st of 2021. The bargaining unit includes approximately 40 regularly appointed city employees of the city of Seattle, and the agreement does include retroactive wage adjustments. Like many of our other collective bargaining agreements for 2019 and 2020, and it also includes a reopen on annual wage increases for the year of 2021. Finally, the collective bargaining agreement does include agreements on shared health care coverage, payments and other matters, such as the employee contributions to the premiums for the Washington State Paid Family Medical Leave program. And I recommend and encourage my colleagues to support the passage of this council bill this afternoon. Are there any additional comments on the bill? Hearing none. Will the court please call the roll on the passage of the bill? Juarez? Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Mosquera. Yes. Peterson. Yes. So what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Purple? Yes. President Gonzalez? Yes. Nine in favor, nine opposed. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Agenda item four Will the clerk please read item four into the record?