TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR BOARD MEETING OF NOVEMBER 2, 2017
COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Mr. David St. Pierre, Executive Director
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Authority to Approve the Agreement Between the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and The Building Trades Coalition and Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters
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Dear Sir:
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and The Building Trades Coalition and Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters have reached an Agreement covering rates of pay, hours of work, and other conditions of employment for employees represented by the following 12 Unions in The Building Trades Coalition and Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters: Architectural and Ornamental Ironworkers Union, Local No. 63; Bridge, Structural and Reinforcing Ironworkers, Local Union No. 1; Chicago Journeymen Plumbers’ Local Union 130, U.A.; International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District Lodge 8 & Local Lodge No. 126, AFL-CIO; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 134; International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 150, AFL-CIO; Painters’ District Council No. 14 of International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades (of Chicago, Cook, and Lake Counties, Illinois); Pipefitters’ Association, Local Union 597; International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail And Transportation Workers, Local 73; International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers, Local No. 17; Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters and Administrative District Council 1 of Illinois of The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, AFL-CIO. The District has been advised that this Agreement has been ratified by each union in The Building Trades Coalition and Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters.
A copy of the Agreement is attached hereto. The Agreement covers the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2020.
It is recommended that the Board of Commissioners approve the Agreement between the District and The Building Trades Coalition and Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters.
It is requested that the President, the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, the Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations, the Executive Director, the Clerk/Director of Finance and the Labor Negotiator be authorized and directed to execute said agreement on behalf of the District after it is approved by the General Counsel as to form and legality.
Typographical errors in this Agreement, not resulting in substantive changes to the contract language, may be corrected following approval by the Board of Commissioners.
Requested, Beverly K. Sanders, Director of Human Resources
Recommended, David St. Pierre, Executive Director
Respectfully Submitted, Mariyana T. Spyropoulos, Chairman Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations
Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Regular Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for November 2, 2017
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