Union members say they want a minimum wage increase and a step system that recognizes seniority
Employees of a Chula Vista-based nonprofit offering social services that help families become self-sufficient walked off the job Monday to protest failed negotiations over a new, three-year contract.
On May 19, union members unanimously authorized Monday’s strike, which resulted in the closure of more than a dozen of its childhood development centers. They said they took the action after 27 unsuccessful bargaining sessions over the past eight months. Organizers said unionized workers have filed five Unfair Labor Practice charges — two for worker intimidation and three related to bad faith bargaining.
Union members want the company to “restart a step increase system,” said Alisa Miller, representing Local 221. “Every year on your anniversary, you move up a step and that allows you to grow in your career, and as new people come in, they’re brought at a lower rate and they get to move up. That’s been frozen for at least 10 years. We want that back so we don’t have this constant turnover.”
MAAC operates based on funding that is in place, he said. The nonprofit’s fiscal 2022 budget includes $52.2 million in operating expenses, of which $26 million goes toward salaries and wages. The budget has $52.3 million in revenues, leaving a surplus of nearly $103,000.
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