Welcome to Our Local’s Web Site!

This web site has been around for several years, but, now, with the New Year 2008, we’re giving it a new look and adding lots of new content and useful information.  Check back frequently for tips about your rights and responsibilities under our contract, notices about meetings and events, information about this year’s impending contract negotations and invitations to participate in charting the course of Ramsey County and our Union.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Brian Chaffin, President and (temporary) Webmaster

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AFSCME LOCAL 151 - HOME PAGE

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF

STATE COUNTY AND MUNCIPAL EMPLOYEES

Local 151 Executive Board Officers

President/Webmaster

Brian Chaffin

266-4151

Vice-President

Steve Hildebrandt

266-3969

Treasurer

Sue Smith

266-4255

Secretary

Judy Schultz

266-7780

Member-at-Large

Terry Havican

266-3850

Clerical Representative

Tony Peterson

266-4225

Financial Worker Representative

Cindy Lindemyer

266-3665

Social Worker Representative

Becky Meyer

266-4291

Health and Safety

LeAnn Reher

266-2543

Chief Steward

Mike Banks

266-3604

Chief Steward

Dora Salazar

266-4463

Chief Steward

Suzanne Kocurek

266-4356

 

Local 151 Union Stewards

 

John Andreozzi

266-7923

Je'maria Ware

266-7784

 

 

Julie Jones

266-3637

Benjamin Maduka

266-4667

Terry Reyes

266-4849

Becky Rios

266-3923

Sandy Cochrane

266-3781

Antwyne Haywood

266-3928

 

 

 

 

Contract Survey Info Meetings

 

Questions on the Local 151 Contract Survey?   Want to know more or clarify something on the survey?  Come to one of the following lunchtime walk-in information sessions.

 

11:30-1:30 pm Wednesday, April 16th, 9600 A&D, RC East

12:00-1:00 pm Thursday, April 17 th, Ramsey Room, 1919 University, MH Clinic

 

We will have tables set up with Union staff to help answer questions, along with a box to turn in your completed survey.

 

Every question is important     Every voice is important

Every completed survey helps us with negotiations

Every Contract Vote Counts        Your Union is U

KNOW YOUR CONTRACT!

A few words from Chief Steward, Mike Banks

Sick Leave, Not Just for Illness & Injury

 

While the principal use of sick leave is to provide salary while you are sick or injured our contract (article 9) provides lots of other uses of sick leave that might be overlooked.  They are as follows.

  1. Sick leave up to 40 hours in any one instance may be used as a result of serious illness of your spouse, adult children (there is no limit on minor children), parents or a person regularly residing in your immediate household when you attend their needs.  “Person in your household” was designed to cover significant others but covers anyone residing in your household.  Note that you may use the Family Medical Leave Act (see articles 12-13 and 12-14) or vacation after the 40 hours are up.
  2. You may use up to 40 hours of sick leave for the birth or adoption of your child or a child residing regularly in your household.  A child residing regularly in your household could be a child of a same gender or opposite gender unmarried partner or could be a grandchild or the child of anyone that resides in your home.  This leave must be taken all at once and within 6 months of the birth or adoption.
  3. If you are pregnant you can use sick leave just like any other ill or disabled employee for the period you are certified by your physician as unable to work due to pregnancy or delivery.  You may use vacation or an unpaid maternity leave of up to 6 months after you can no longer use/run out of sick leave.
  4. If you are pregnant and choose to resign due to pregnancy you can be paid for accumulated sick leave up to 120 hours.
  5. You may use up to 40 hours of sick leave upon a death in your immediate family.  Immediate family for this article means your spouse, children, parents, siblings grandchildren, grandparents or a person regularly residing in your household.  It also includes the parents or siblings of your spouse and parents or siblings of anyone regularly residing in your household.  Often employees are not ready to come back to work so soon after significant deaths.  If you are unable to return to work due to you own medical condition caused by a death you can use sick leave as needed with an appropriate medical statement. 
  6. Full-time employees who do not use any sick leave in the three month periods Jan-March, April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec can choose to trade 4 hours of sick leave for either 4 hours of vacation or 4 hours of pay.  Part-time employees who go the same period without using sick leave can convert sick leave to vacation or pay on a prorated basis based on what percentage of full time they have worked.
  7. If you are on vacation and get sick you can have vacation days you were sick changed to sick days.  You may need to present a written statement from a physician.
  8. You may use sick leave to supplement Worker’s Compensation payments up to 80% of your normal daily wage.
  9. You may use accumulated sick leave as separation pay provided you have at least 10 years of full-time service (or 20,800 hours) and at least 480 hours of sick leave.  You will be paid 50% or your sick leave up to a maximum of $13,000.  Note that you may also collect a smaller amount of separation pay without having 480 hours of sick leave if you have 20 years of full-time service (or 41,600 hours).  See article 11 for separation pay.

 

As you can see sick leave is a valuable commodity and it pays to use it carefully.

Local 151 Contracts:

CHS

LPNs

WorkForce Solutions

Local 151 Business Manager Joyce Carlson (651) 287-0585

Links:

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South Saint Paul, MN 55075-2469

Telephone: 651-455-0773

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President’s Report

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