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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