LMCC Meeting April 1st

On April 1st, Labor/Management Communications Committee met with HR. Our agenda items included:

Impacts of proposed elimination of a vacant Program Specialist 3 position in Running Start. (Under our contract, the Union can bargain the impacts of changes in wages, hours, working conditions, etc.
Follow up to Union information request for the total number of impacted WPEA-represented positions from July 1, 2025 to current due to layoffs (including bumping), unfilled positions, eliminated positions.
Program viability discussions; concerns for program viability matrix.
Status update on COLA back-pay pay-out plans.
Multilingual premium pay, Article 42.21. Are there employees who should receive the multilingual premium but don’t?

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