Amendment to MOU - Extend the Current Terms of the Teamster Master Agreement – Teamsters Local Union No. 364

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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND AND TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION NO.364 This Memorandum of Understanding (this "MOU") is made on November 17 , 2020 (the "Effective Date") and sets forth the agreement between the City of South Bend, Indiana (the "City"), and Teamsters Local Union No. 364 , affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters of America ("the Union") (collectively, the "Parties"). RECITALS WHEREAS, the Parties entered into a Master Agreement ("Agreement") to provide for equitable and peaceful adjustment of differences which may arise, further a mutual and voluntary effort to promote and maintain sound labor relations, and to establish other conditions of employment for the calendar years 2017-2020; and WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana ("Common Council") passed Ordinance number 7997-89 on July 24, 1989, fixing the maximum wages and monetary fringe benefits for Union employees of the City for the calendar years 1990 through 1992. Further, each subsequent three-year cycle, the Common Council has passed an ordinance fixing the maximum wages for Union employees, most recently on October 24, 2016 in Ordinance No. 10474-16 for the term commencing on January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2020. WHEREAS, the Parties acknowledge that the full monetary impact of COVID-19 is uncertain, but the Parties agree that the pandemic, as well as the efforts to maintain government functions and services during the associated quarantine period will cause shortages in the City budget for 2020 and beyond. Wl IEREAS, the Parties plan to engage in more fully informed collective bargaining in 2021. Thus, the Parties wish to enact the clause from Article 33 of the 2017-2020 Agreement, allowing the contract terms to "continue in full force and effect for one (1) year...," extending the current terms through December 31, 2021. NOW, THEREFORE, in keeping with the purpose of the Agreement to promote and maintain sound labor relations in the best interests of the community, and in the respective best interests of the Parties, the City and the Union agree as follows: 1. Under Article 33 of the Agreement, the current Agreement, and all of its agreed upon supplements are in full force and effect for an additional one (1) year term. The Agreement terms are now scheduled to expire on December 31, 2021.