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Recommendation to adopt resolution approving the Terms and Conditions of Employment for members of the Association of Long Beach Employees (ALBE) bargaining unit, pursuant to Government Code Section 3505, et seq. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The City and ALBE representatives held over 14 meet and confer sessions regarding a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). After engaging in a lengthy period of bargaining, including a fair consideration of ALBE's proposals, the City and ALBE are at impasse in these negotiations and future meetings would be futile.
The attached Exhibit A to the Resolution specifies the Terms and Conditions of Employment including provisions of the City's Last, Best and Final Offer, submitted to the Association of Long Beach Employees (ALBE), for the period of October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2018, and is required to implement the salary and benefit elements. These Terms and Conditions of Employment are in accordance with instructions issued by the City Council.
ALBE's Last, Best and Final Offer was made on August 31, 2017. The City rejected ALBE's offer. The City's Last, Best and Final Offer was made to ALBE on September 13, 2017. ALBE rejected the City's offer on September 28, 2017. ALBE also declined to utilize a mediator or invoke the fact-finding option to alleviate the impasse. Under Government Code Section 3505, et seq., the City has the option to unilaterally implement the City's Last, Best and Final Offer for a one-year period.
In accordance with City Council's instructions to implement the City's Last, Best and Final Offer, the attached Resolution and the Terms and Conditions of Employment document provide for compensation provisions consistent with recent agreements reached with the other miscellaneous bargaining units. The adoption of the Resolution and Terms and Conditions of Employment document will not establish a new MOU, but will change some of the terms and conditions of employment under which the parties are cu...
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