AFSCME Housing Bureau Grievance Settlement (2024)

The City of Portland ordains:

Section 1. The Council finds:

1. The City and the Union are parties to a collective bargaining unit effective from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2024.
2. The Housing Business Systems Analyst (HBSA) has been a represented classification under the DCTU Agreement since 2018 and before that represented under the City of Portland/AFSCME Local 189-3 Agreement. When the Business Systems Analyst II (BSA II) classification became represented by the Union in March 2022 and the wage scale was created, the City and Union did not amend the wage scale of the HBSA. The Parties have been in protracted discussions about adjusting the wage scale of the HBSA to align with the BSA II wage scale and the effective date of such retro action and wish to resolve the pay disparity through this Agreement.
3. The City and Union have also mutually agreed to settle two grievances in abeyance:
   1. A 2022 Grievance regarding 2-day suspension without pay for Housing employee, M.D.
   2. A 2023 Grievance regarding Work out of Class pay for two Housing Program Specialist, Assistants.
4. The terms of the Settlement Agreement include:
   1. Reducing discipline for Housing Bureau employee, M.D.,
   2. The Bureau resubmitting to the BHR Classification, Compensation and Pay Equity team a request to evaluate the scope of work of the Housing Program Specialist, Assistant to determine if the current work assignment(s) performed by incumbent(s) meets the higher-level classification work of a Housing Program Specialist,
   3. Align the HBSA wage scale to that of the Schedule A BSA II wage scale, retroactive to March 9, 2022 which will result in a retroactive pay action for the single incumbent in the HBSA classification.
   4. Align the HBSA, Assistant wage scale to that of the Schedule A BSA I scale. This classification is vacant, and no retro pay action is required.
5. With the authorization of the Settlement Agreement, the Union will withdraw their grievances with prejudice and the Parties agree that the matters are fully resolved.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:

1. The Interim Director of the Bureau of Human Resources is authorized to enter into a Letter of Agreement between the City and AFSCME, Local 189 in a form substantially similar to the attached Exhibit A to settle two outstanding grievances and amend the wage scale of the Housing Business Systems Analyst and Housing Business Systems Analyst, Assistant.

Section 2. The Council declares that an emergency exists to avoid undue delay in amending wage tables for the Housing Business Systems Analyst classifications and providing retroactive pay to an impacted employee; therefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Council.

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