BREAKING NEWS: MEA Reaches Tentative Agreement With City On a New One-Year Labor Contract
In a special closed session meeting earlier today, the City Council approved a Tentative Agreement (TA) with MEA’s Negotiating Team for a new one-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Fiscal Year 2021. The TA represents a good outcome under the COVID-19-related circumstances which have dramatically reduced City’s tax revenues. Your MEA Negotiating Team strongly recommends that you vote to accept this TA […]
Read more >>MEA Contract Negotiations Update
On April 3, we updated you that as a result of COVID-19, labor contract negotiations were effectively on hold for much of March and the first week of April. However, the Mayor and City Council returned to closed session regarding negotiations on April 7 and April 21, and MEA has been hard at work on a daily basis communicating with City […]
Read more >>BREAKING NEWS: MEA Successfully Defeats City’s Attempt to “Furlough” Hundreds of City Workers Without Pay
As we previously updated you on Sunday, MEA filed a grievance against the City as a result of the instruction to hundreds of employees by e-mail or over the phone that, as of April 4th, they would no longer get paid unless they used their own accrued leave balances. These employees are in Library, Parks and Recreation, City Treasurer, Transportation and Storm […]
Read more >>MEA Files Urgent Grievance On Behalf of Employees Impacted by City’s Unlawful “Unpaid Furlough” Orders
On Friday, some employees in the Library, Parks and Recreation, Transportation and Storm Water and other City Departments were instructed to not show up for work on Monday. These employees were also told that, beginning Monday, they would not remain in a paid status unless they used their own annual leave. This amounts to an unpaid furlough or temporary layoff, […]
Read more >>COVID-19 Update
Hi everyone and hope you are well. MEA would like to provide some updates related to the City’s new COVID-19 rules as well as other related issues: New City Policies The City has updated its “COVID-19 Protocol” (attached) effective Monday, April 6. The changes will have no impact for many employees, but substantial impact on some employees. These changes were not negotiated by […]
Read more >>Important Information Related to Coronavirus and City Work Schedules
Hi everyone and hope you are well, both physically and mentally as we all navigate these incredibly dynamic, challenging and unprecedented times. MEA wanted to pass along three important updates related to the Coronavirus, MEA’s efforts on your behalf and new City policies announced Friday as a result of those efforts. We expect more announcements and operational changes in the coming hours and days, […]
Read more >>Employees impacted by the move from 101 Ash
For those employees that were moved out of 101 Ash last month and who have questions or concerns regarding their temporary work locations, missing office equipment, reasonable accommodation needs or anything else that MEA can assist you with, please contact MEA Labor Representative Cathleen Higgins at chiggins@sdmea.org. Cathleen is working directly with City Management on addressing the day-to-day issues that […]
Read more >>MEA Presentation at City Council Budget Committee
Yesterday, MEA was invited by Chair Barbara Bry to make a presentation to the City Council’s Budget and Government Efficiency Committee related to the City’s Five Year Financial Outlook. MEA took this opportunity to engage on the accuracy of the City’s Financial Outlook and also to continue to emphasize the City’s employee recruitment and retention crisis and the need to […]
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