MOU - Increased Wage Rates – Teamsters Local Union No. 364

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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING This Memorandum of Understanding (this "MOU") is made on February 27, 2024 , 2024 (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 2022-2024; 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 Teamsters Union employees of the City for the calendar years 1990 through 1992. Further, each subsequent contract cycle, the Common Council has passed an ordinance fixing the maximum wages for Union employees. Prior to the most recent budget cycle, Council most recently passed an ordinance fixing maximum wages for Union employees on October 10, 2022 in Ordinance Number 10893-22 for calendar year 2023 (the "Salary Ordinance"); and WHEREAS, conditions since the adoption of the 2023 Salary Ordinance have changed so as to warrant additional compensation for certain Teamster positions in the 2024 Salary Ordinance, particularly within the Equipment Services Work Group. As a result of these conditions, the City desires to increase the wages of the Building Maintenance, General Laborer, Machinist IV and V, Mechanic III, IV, and V, and Parts Clerk I and II positions to bring these wages more in line with the private sector in order to retain and attract employees in these roles; and WHEREAS, the City of South Bend Common Council adopted many of these increases in Ordinance Number 10980-23 on October 9, 2023; and WHEREAS, the Parties mutually desire to amend the Agreement to include these updated wage rates for 2024 and agree that any wage rates not currently reflected in Ordinance Number 10980-23 shall be updated through the City's filing of an amended Salary Ordinance. NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties agree as follows: 1. The Agreement, particularly the Equipment Services Supplemental, shall be amended to include the following wage rates. The City will file an amended Salary Ordinance requesting that the Common Council amend the Salary Ordinance to the extent that any of these rates are not currently reflected in Ordinance Number 10980-23.