LOCAL UNION NEWS

Brothers and Sisters,

I just want to give you all an update to what’s happening in your District Council and your Local Union, since we have many different employers and units in the local, I will touch on some that I’m currently in negotiations:

-At San Francisco Unified School District and the Building Trades negotiating team has come to an tentative agreement with the District to bring parity to District Painters and City Painters for long time the SFUSD painters would transfer to the City and County of SF and would leave the district needing to fill those vacancy so now they will make the same wages as their counter parts this will go to the members to vote at the end of February.

-I’m currently in Negotiations along with the Alameda Building trades with UCB/LBL we are currently cleaning up most of if not all the outdated Articles language and then will start on wages we started these negotiations in October 2025 because of the past negotiations experiences we wanted to make sure that come September 2026 we would have a contract ready for the members to vote on.

-Other upcoming negotiations: OUSD we will start negotiations on February 25^th, Oakland Housing we currently waiting on dates, UCSF they are requesting an extension will be meeting on February 27^th, City of Sacramento we have our 4^th meeting set for March 2^nd.

District Council 16 Volunteer Activist Committee (VAC) has 2 events coming up both on March 14^th they are the DC16 St. Patrick’s Day Parades one is in San Francisco and the other is in the Eastbay in Dublin these are 2 big events that bring family and friends or anyone who wants to have fun! 

San Francisco -St Patrick’s Day Parade meet up at 10:30 am at the public parking lot on 2^nd Street between Harrison and Folsom look for DC16 table to sign up if you need directions call Anthony 415-215-5039.

Dublin-St Patrick’s Day parade you will meet up near Pet Smart store near Target 7200 Amador Plaza Rd look for DC16 Table to sign up if you need direction call Jesse 510-414-4724.

All the information for the VAC events is on the DC16 website www.dc16iupat.org go to get involved and you see all upcoming events if this is you or your family’s first event you will need to fill out a VAC application and a Covid waiver this you can do at the event or get a head start and fill it out on website.

Rich Morales 

Business Representative

510-508-5493