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Board adopts AFSCME tentative agreements and new 11-step salary schedule for 2025'2027
Summary
Todd County approved tentative collective-bargaining agreements with AFSCME units (Health & Human Services and Public Works) covering 2025'2027 and adopted a new 11-step nonunion salary schedule plus COLAs; administrators said key terms include shared PFML premium costs and phased employee contributions to high-cost plans.
Todd County commissioners on March 18 approved two separate tentative agreements with AFSCME units and adopted a county resolution implementing a new 11-step salary schedule and pay adjustments for nonunion and appointed officials.
County administration told the board a negotiations team had reached a tentative agreement with AFSCME Health & Human Services. Highlights read into the record included equal sharing of Minnesota paid family-and-medical-leave premiums between employer and employees (employee portion deducted through payroll), employer contributions for dependent coverage continuing to increase in line with prior trends, continuation of fully covered single insurance in 2025 with a $25/month employee contribution for a high-cost single plan in 2026 and 2027, an 11-step salary schedule effective the first full pay period in January 2025, and cost-of-living adjustments of 2.5% (2025), 3.5% (2026), and 3.0% (2027). A severance-cap change for employees hired on/after 01/01/2025 was also noted. Administration recommended adoption of the AFSCME HHS contract for 2025'2027 and the board approved it by motion.
The board then approved the AFSCME Public Works tentative agreement, which administration said contained parallel provisions and the same 11-step schedule. Following those votes, the board approved a resolution setting 2025 nonunion and appointed official salaries consistent with the new schedule, including retroactive adjustments to the first full pay period in January 2025.
"The Todd County negotiations team met with AFSCME health and human services union representatives, and they have successfully reached a tentative agreement," county administration stated at the meeting. Commissioners asked few substantive questions and approved the agreements and the salary-resolution motion by voice votes.
Provenance: topicintro: SEG 788; topfinish: SEG 1005.
