SR-04-10-1979-11BSanta Monica, California, March 26, 1979
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TO: Mayor and City Council
APR 1 0 1979
FROM: City Staff
SUBJECT: Interim agreement for salary adjustment for Mechanic Supervisors
employed in the Transportation Department.
Introduction
This interim agreement is intended to alleviate a temporary
situation in the Mechanical Maintenance. Division of the
Transportation Dept. It will more properly allign salaries
through the career ladder of mechanics and their supervisors
in that area.
Background
The City Council approved an MOU with Statewide Tmployees
Association that called for among other items, classification
and salary study for the employees of the Mechanical Maint-
enance Division of the Transportation Department. This study
was completed and under the terms of the contract employees in
the unit effected by the study were given salary increases.
Supervisors of the employees receiving raises under the above
process are not in the Statewide Employees bargaining unit and
hence did not receive pay adjustments. Usually this does not
present a problem, but in this instance it does. Under some
rare circumstances,aechanics given special assignments earn
just three cents (30 less than their supervisors.
Present salaries at the top (E) step for these supervisors
is $9.39 per hour. Top step under the proposed interim
revision is $11.05 per hour. //16
APR 1 0 1979
Mayor and City Council
March 26, 1979
Page Two
Alternatives:
A. Leave the situation as it is since the Supervisors
are scheduled for bargaining and change of contract terms
effective July 1, 1979.
B. Make an interim agreement with the Supervisor's Team
Association, the bargaining unit of the supervisors, which
will approximate the indicated needed adjustments pending the
outcome of a comparative study.
Recommendation
Staff recommends that City Council authorize the City Manager
to execute the attached agreement.
Because of large increases in need for transit mechanics and
drivers in this area due to the explosion in the use of buses
by the L.A. School District, many good and long standing
employees have been lured by high wages to accept jobs with
the school district. It was this factor which led the City
to reluctantly agree to a study and adjustment in the SEA
contract as noted above. This request comes as a domino
effect from that previous action. Alternate B is recommended
as a fair treatment of an unusual situation. Alternate A
will create more disharmony between the City and a few of its
employees than it is worth. Staff respectfully re-
commends approval of alternative B above.
Prepared by:
R. rector
A' ative er -vices