Contract Negotiations

• Thu, Mar 10th, 2011 12:00:00 am
  Current Biweekly Salary Rates
  
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• Thu, Mar 10th, 2011 12:00:00 am
  Biweekly Salary Rates Effective 1-1-2012
  
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• Thu, Mar 10th, 2011 12:00:00 am
  Biweekly Salary Rates Effective 1-1-11
  
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• Tue, Jun 22nd, 2010 12:00:00 am
  Update on AME/County Negotiations
  The AME Negotiating Team, led by President Cheryl A. Felice, met with the County for its third formal session of Negotiations on Monday, June 21, 2010, at AME Union Headquarters.
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• Tue, May 11th, 2010 12:00:00 am
  AME opposes IR No.1474 re-the sale of John J. Foley
  The Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees (AME) opposes Resolution #1474 authorizing the County Executive to execute agreements for the sale of the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility.
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• Mon, May 10th, 2010 12:00:00 am
  Negotiations Team Update
  On Monday, May 10, 2010, the AME Negotiations Team met with the Suffolk County Office of Labor Relations for their third formal negotiations session. AME, after presenting their initial Contract proposals on April 19th, started the task of presenting their demands in detail and will continue this process on the next session scheduled for June 7th.
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• Mon, Apr 19th, 2010 12:00:00 am
  Suffolk County AME & Labor Relations met today For "Collective Negotiations"
  The AME Negotiating Team began its Monday, April 19th meeting with Labor Relations by meeting with the Executive Board and AME Counsel Brian O'Dwyer, Helen Wrobel, and O'Dwyer & Bernstien Labor/Management legal specialist Tom Ryan. Mr. Ryan is serving as an on-site Negotiations expert in every step of this formidable negotiations process. Brian O'Dwyer provided some important confidence in reminding this AME Team of the successful Union solidarity which existed during the prior Negotiations of 2004/2005. We stood together as one then, and we must stand together as one now! Just looking back at the last twelve months, most recently including the hostile CWA decertification raid attempt, we have triumphed over some very major hurdles – all of which have succeeded in making AME stronger and more focused!
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• Fri, Mar 26th, 2010 12:00:00 am
  First Negotiation Session
  Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees (AME) held its first negotiation session with management today, March 26, 2010. Cheryl Felice, AME President, stated, "I am well aware, as is our Negotiating Team, that these negotiations will not be easy. We are bargaining against a formidable foe and have to contend with an uncertain economy; however, we are prepared - our team having met over a dozen times this past year. We are ready."
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• Mon, Feb 1st, 2010 12:00:00 am
  Negotiating Team Committee Update-
  AME was notified by our attorneys at O'Dwyer and Bernstein, that PERB Arbitrator, Arthur Riegel, declared the decertification matter by CWA against AME, officially closed on December 31, 2009. With that 8-month action finally over, AME immediately requested to resume contract talks with Suffolk County.
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• Tue, Jan 5th, 2010 12:00:00 am
  Request to Labor Relations to Resume Contract Negotiations
  Letter to Mr. Jeffrey Tempera, Director, to resume negotiations.
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• Wed, Jul 22nd, 2009 12:00:00 am
  Negotiations Update
  On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, the AME Negotiating Team, which included the AME Executive Board and several members of the John J. Foley Unit's BOD, met for several hours to review and discuss a total of eleven "requests" from the County's Office of Labor Relations for bargaining consideration toward a new Contract and Bargaining Agreement.
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• Fri, Jun 26th, 2009 12:00:00 am
  Unity Rally on July 1, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
  As we begin to transition the ninth AME Executive Board and celebrate our 25th year as the largest independent union in New York State, AME is under attack! A decertification effort is under way by an international union who is largely a private sector union. If they succeed in persuading our members to leave our bargaining unit to join theirs, AME will cease to exist. What is worse, we, Suffolk County employees, will be swallowed up by a local representative of this international union who has less public employee members than AME!
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• Fri, Apr 24th, 2009 12:00:00 am
  County and AME Reached A Tentative Agreement To Avoid Layoffs
  Late last night, the County and AME reached a tentative agreement to avoid layoffs of nearly 600 AME members with a Deficit Reduction Plan, which includes a guarantee of no additional layoffs or concessions and a two-week payroll deferral.
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• Mon, Mar 16th, 2009 12:00:00 am
  $100 Million Shortfall for the 2009 Budget alleges County Executive
  The County Executive is alleging a budgetary shortfall of over $100 million for the 2009 budget due to a projected loss in sales tax receipts.
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• Fri, Mar 13th, 2009 12:00:00 am
  Joint DPW Blue collar Negotiations Meeting
  Representative's from Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and Express Scripts will be present to answer any questions you may have regarding the changes to the health insurance.
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