September 14, 2007                                                       Volume #28, Issue #27

EDUCATION CONFERENCE SET. . .The Council 40 Health and Safety Committee along with the Street
and Highway Workers and Women’s Committees have planned a comprehensive two-day Education
Conference for November 2-3. It will be held at the Hotel Mead and Conference Center in Wisconsin
Rapids. The agenda includes sessions on Ergonomics, Work Zone Safety, Hazardous Materials
Awareness, Trenching and Confined Space Hazards, Work/Family Issues, Retirement Financial Planning,
Identity Theft, Stress Management, PEOPLE Organizing and more. Mark your calendars and plan to
attend. This conference is open to any member of a local affiliated with Council 40. Further information
and a registration form is enclosed for presidents and secretaries. Our website also has the same
information.

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING. . .The Council 40 Executive Board will meet on October 18 at the
Holiday Inn City Centre in Green Bay. If your local union/chapter has some business to place before the
Board, or wishes to appear at the meeting, please contact the Madison office ASAP so we can put you on
the agenda. A preliminary agenda will be sent to local union secretaries a few weeks before the meeting.

MANITOWOC COUNTY. . .AFSCME members who work for Manitowoc County have new labor agree-
ments covering five years. Local 986 members in the Highway Department, Local 986-A members in the
Courthouse and Human Services Department, Local 986-B members in the Sheriff’s Department and
Local 1288 members who work at the Health Care Center agreed to 3% wage increases on 1/1 in each of
the five years, 2006 through 2010. Dispatchers in the Sheriff’s Department received an extra 30¢/hour
retroactive to 1/1/06; clericals and cooks will get an extra 13¢/hour on 1/1/08. In the Highway Department,
patrolmen went from pay grade II to III; welders, tire repairers and mechanics went from pay grade IV to V.
For health insurance, the County had been paying 92% of the single and family premiums. With the new
contracts, the County will pay 100% of the single and family premiums for a high deductible plan with
100% of the deductibles reimbursed through HRAs or HSAs. Language improvements were included in
some of the new contracts.

MUKWONAGO. . .School district employees in Mukwonago represented by Local 1101 in a wall-to-wall
bargaining unit recently ratified a new three-year contract. Wages were increased 6% retroactive to 7/1/07.
A 3.5% wage increase is set for 7/1/08 followed by a 2.5% hike on 7/1/09. The District will continue to pay
93% of the single and family health insurance premiums and 100% of the single and family dental
insurance premiums. Effective 9/1/07 the insurance plan was changed from the WEAIT POS Plan to
a UHC Choice Plus Plan.