Hawaiian Telcom announced it has updated its collective bargaining agreement offer to IBEW Local Union 1357.
The company says the new offer represents a good faith effort by both parties to address each other’s needs and concerns, while standing by the financial framework of the company’s last, best and final offer made in October.
Hawaiian Telcom says it will defer the previously announced December 1 implementation of its last, best and final offer to allow the union to conduct an immediate vote on the updated offer.
The company says the union is proceeding with an expedited voting process, with plans to send out ballots and additional information today and to count the ballots on December 13.
The company and the union have agreed that during the voting period, there will be no work stoppages or slowdowns and no lockouts.
The company’s updated offer adjusts the last, best and final offer by graduating Union employees’ healthcare premium contributions at 5% for 2012 and at 10% effective January 1, 2013; providing up to 10 weeks of fully paid benefits annually for sick leave (instead of up to 26 weeks currently and 8 weeks in the prior offer); decreasing the target annual incentive payment; and withdrawing proposed changes to overtime computations and to certain work procedures.
The company’s updated offer also proposes a three-and-a-half year CBA duration instead of the historical three years, with a proposed expiration date of June 30, 2015. In all other respects, the updated offer includes the remaining terms and conditions of the company’s last, best and final offer.
