After a four hour nap and some serious reading, I’m done going over that stupid contract. I will not be voting to ratify this contract. Part-time and employees hired after the ratification are not being looked out for.
They are losing benefit coverage for certain things. They are losing wage premiums here and there. In order for newcomers to get a raise they have to work 1000 hours verses the 700 that current employees work. On top of that newcomers will not get the full raise as stated in the wage schedule. 25¢ is all they will get each 1000 hours until they hit the top of the wage schedule. So let’s say you are a part-time worker only doing 24 hours a week instead of working about 30 weeks before a raise you now would have to put in about 42 weeks to get a smaller raise.
So we’ll have to see what happens here.