Full Benefits Plan
You become eligible for the Full Benefits Plan when:
- You select a work assignment of four or more hours during any pick through this calendar year. (Your fully paid benefits begin on the first day of the month after you work the four or more hour assignment and extend through December 31, 2009).
- You receive 1,019 or more paid hours in the 26 pay periods ending with the pay period that includes July 31 in this calendar year. (Your fully paid benefits begin on January 1 of next year, pending extension of these benefits beyond December 31, 2009).
County Paid Benefits — no employee contribution toward cost of benefit is required
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6 comments:
And they make about about $4 more an hour. Why
does it take a blogger like yourself to make this info public, as opposed to Mr. Jon Hunt, your Union
President? It seems that Mr. Hunt does the bare minimum that his job requires, to the point that one must seriously wonder if he's the man that TRIMET MANAGEMENT would love to see re-elected as your president.
Hey Al I so appreciate your dedication to this blog and was wondering if you could add that picture in your picas google account about average operator wages to this post and to the Freddie pension post. This post with that pic proves Trimet does not have the best pay and benefits for its operators whereas I'm not even factoring in the free abuse and harassment one takes on a daily basis.
Please post that city of Beaverton average executive wages pic under Freddie's pension too; so when opened it shows the divergence of municipality greed. I mean if one can sling mud one may need raingear.
Couple things to add here:
A Part Time Operator (PTO) earns $20.39 to start (after Training), then a step increase comes after 2 years, another after 2 more years, then one a year for each of 2 more years before at the top rate of $29.13 (COLA is on schedule for everyone per contract).
A PTO who works less than 1019 hours per year, or can not pick 4hr+ work or more starting on the 1st of the month they become qualified as a PTO can pay for insurance, the cost for all medical/dental/vision is about $135 per month for the employee only. Full Time Operators (FTO) do not pay for insurance, and the step increases only take up to 3 years to achieve top rate. Everyone gets a full fare bus pass good on just about everything except ferries on first day of training, and uniforms are provided after qualification day.
The vacation chart shown is wrong, you earn vacation starting on your first day after probation (So no vacation is earned first year of service), and can not be used until Jan 1st of the following year. Sick leave accrues immediately, and you get one personal holiday per year, good after 90 days of service.
Downfalls are when your first hired, do not expect to get more than 2.75 hours per day on your regular assignment for one-two picks. (METRO only has 3 shake ups per year, Feb, June, & Sept/Oct). We have 7 bases spread North, East, Downtown, and South. We have many ways to work extra shifts, but are never a for sure thing.
PTOs always have weekends and (major) holidays off. METRO also continues to put new buses in service every week.
As the link shows you, we are hiring.
I'm not sure what picassa picture you are referring to or if I could even find it without spending a lot of time looking.
There is a recent post that showed TriMet drivers are no where near the highest paid operators, MUNI/MBTA/CTA/METRO/MTA all significantly higher than ours
No picture painting, just adding some facts about the bennys we get, so you can compare with pay, insurance costs, etc etc.
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