Did the El Dorado Hills CSD union file a labor complaint? Here’s what happened
Unionized employees at the El Dorado Hills Community Services District have held off filing complaint against their employer.
Union spokesperson Tina Acree said employees on Wednesday decided to delay filing a complaint with the Public Employees Relations Board alleging the district bargained in bad faith. Employees will wait at least until after next month’s board of directors meeting, with Acree saying the move was made “in hopes the board does the right thing.”
Negotiations for a labor agreement between the district and its unionized employees have been ongoing for more than a year, Acree said, beginning in April 2025. The negotiations were initially delayed as a good-faith effort to help new leadership get up to speed and execute a compensation study. Employees received a 3% raise around that time.
While compensation remains a key issue, Acree said the union has had a one-year deal on the table for about three months that does not require compensation increases.
Under the proposal, the district would adjust wages below the study’s 50th percentile by June 2027 when feasible. It also would require employees whose pay exceeds the 70th percentile to forgo a pay scale increase for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 fiscal years, according to the proposal shared by Acree.
The salary range for a maintenance aide at the El Dorado Hills Community Services District is about $35,500 to $44,300, according to the compensation study Acree provided, compared with a 50th percentile range of about $43,700 to $53,300.
Acree said those wages make it difficult for employees to live in the community they serve. A two-bedroom apartment in El Dorado Hills costs more than $2,500 a month, according to Apartments.com, compared with about $1,800 a month in neighboring Cameron Park. Acree said only two of the union’s 22 represented employees live in El Dorado Hills.
“In communities where people can actually live in the community they serve, you actually are more invested because you live there, you work there,” Acree previously said.
The El Dorado Hills Community Services District declined to comment on the active negotiations, with General Manager Stephanie McGann Jantzen saying the district cannot comment on ongoing human resources matters.
