Amalgamated Transit Union #883 (ATU) 12/10/2025

24 AVRS may be used in the creation and presentation of training materials with the operator’s consent. Supervisors, management, and their designees will not review more of the audio or video than is reasonably necessary to investigate the circumstances surrounding the precipitating event. Generally, this will be limited to three (3) minutes prior to and three (3) minutes after the precipitating event. Additional data may be reviewed by management upon mutual agreement with the Union. Review initiated by a precipitating event will be for the purpose of determining what happened. Any discipline resulting from review of audio or video recording must be related to the initial purpose of the review, limited in time by (180) seconds before and (180) seconds after a precipitating event, however, discipline may also be issued if review of the data within these parameters (180) seconds before and after the precipitating event) reveals misconduct, even if unrelated to the original purpose. Any discipline resulting from the investigation of a “precipitating event” shall be consistent with “just cause” discipline principles. If the City believes that the information from the AVRS may support discipline of an employee, a copy of the recording will be provided to the employee no less than 24 hours before the disciplinary or investigative meetings with the employee. The City may not pull any hard drive or media-recording device from a vehicle for the purpose of “targeted surveillance” or to randomly monitor employees for disciplinary action. The City may, however, monitor data recorded by the AVRS as part of a corrective action follow-up plan. Monitoring of this type must be approved by the Director of Transportation Services. The City must notify the Union when monitoring data recorded by the AVRS is part of a corrective action follow-up plan. Personnel reviewing AVRS data will keep a detailed log of, date and time of hard drive pulled, audio and video reviewed, detailing the reason for the review, the operator being reviewed, the time and date of the video being reviewed, the date the video was actually reviewed, name of the individual reviewing the data, the time review starts and ends, exactly how much data was reviewed, and the results of the review. Section 16: When there is an opening, current operators who are off probation and are not on a performance improvement plan may volunteer to transfer between paratransit, fixed route, inspector or to Maintenance. Maintenance employees that have prior civil service rights to an operator position may volunteer to transfer to an open operator position (employees may not self-promote). A. On moving into the new position, the employee retains his/her employment seniority date for their new rate of pay. B. If the employee fails to successfully complete the training or probationary period, the employee may return to their former position if there is an opening unless the employee was terminated for cause. C. On completion of training, the employee shall receive the appropriate pay in their new job classification based on their years of seniority.