Local 855 Advances
In New Agreement
WATERLOO, Iowa
In a new one-year agreement with Hawkeye Community College, UE
Local 855 gains a $.40 per hour across-the-board wage increase and an increase
in the full-time employee monthly insurance allotment from $470 to $520. Also,
the new contract provides for vision insurance, free of cost to single
employees.
Leaves of absence and vacation days may now be taken in
quarter day increments for full-time employees and two-hour increments for
part time employees. Full-time employees with five years seniority pick up
an extra paid personal day. Also, employees can now use critical illness leave
for grandparents.
In addition, the union and the College agreed to continue to
address health insurance concerns through an insurance committee facilitated
by the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board. The Local 855 bargaining
committee consisted of Dorthea Pates, Alma Huck, Shawn Keefe, Paula
Wermerskirchen, and Nancy Dallenbach. Field Org. Ryan Downing
assisted them.
UE News - 11/01
