SEIU Summary is up.

Thanks for the post. Can you summarize the changes in the 2nd offer compared to the first one?

Comparison between the two offers

• Preserves base salaries but eliminates 3 vacation days and/or floating holidays each year for two years
* Base salaries still preserved but furlough of vacation days and holidays was removed.

• Provides a 0.75% wage increase in the fourth year
• Gives employees a $500 lump sum payment in both the second & third years of contract
* Y1 no increase/bonus, Y2 $500 bonus, Y3 $1000 Bonus, Y4 $1500 Bonus and possible %1 wage increase.

• Caps BART’s medical expenses by allowing all employees to pay just $85/month to cover themselves and their entire family under the Kaiser or Blue Shield HMO plans - If employees wish to choose a more expensive plan they pay the difference between Kaiser/Blue Shield HMO and the more expensive plan (Currently, BART pays virtually the full cost of the 6 medical plans offered for employees and the entire family)
* This remained.

• Continues to offer free pension (BART will pay both the employer and employee share of pension costs)
* This remained.

• Eliminates BART’s contributions to employees’ secondary retirement accounts
* This was removed.

• Reduces BART’s expenses by allowing employees to turn sick leave pay into pension credits
* This remained.

• Eliminates a reasonable number of wasteful work rules and alters the “beneficial past practice” clause in the contract that gives birth to additional wasteful work rules
* Beneficial Past Practice language was changed but still includes "mutual agreement" clause.

Other things
* Some work rules were changed to preserve jobs, BART estimated $17,000,000 in savings by changing these rules.
* BART now must pay $125 to each employee for safety shoes. Previously the employee would have to provide proof of purchase before the money was given.

Lots of other changes but those are the things that caught my attention.