The Contract Ratification Vote has ended and the results are as follows: 2300 votes were cast with 2266 "Yes" votes to 28 "No" votes and 6 abstained. This is a 98.5% Yes response with a 71% voter turnout. Congratulations, we have ratified our contract which will run from July 1, 2025 thru June 30, 2029 and include a wage re-opener for July 1, 2028.
We can now thank all of the A&R members who joined in to be members of the A&R Negotiations Cmte along with Chief Negotiator Rhonda Tillman for getting us to this point. This was a long process that began way back in the summer of 2024 when we started meeting as a group and formulating proposals.
Although A&R has completed our process to ratify the tentative agreement, we are not done yet. The next step is to get this over to the Legislature where it will receive a Senate Resolution # and a House Resolution #. Once we have an SR# and an HR#, our contract will go to the Appropriations Cmte for public comment and a cmte vote (this is a joint committee of House & Senate members). If it passes in the Appropriations Cmte, it will go for a full floor vote in the House and separately for a full floor vote in the Senate. Once this is brought to a floor vote we will need all A&R members to contact their legislators. We have made it this far, let's follow thru by contacting our legislators and finishing this off.
Many members have been asking for the new wage scales...we do not have any official wage scales but we have put together what we would refer to as "completely unofficial" wage scales by multiplying the current rates of pay times the 2.5% wage increases. These are COMPLETELY UNOFFICIAL. Most likely, in many cases, the hourly rate will be off by a couple of pennies but it will certainly give you a very close expectation of your future wages. View the COMPLETELY UNOFFICIAL wage scales for 2025/26, 2026/27, & 2027/28
We do not have an estimate as to when retro-pay would be made, we need to get this passed by the legislature before we start delving into that detail.