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Union: Nutter went back on his word regarding contracts
Councilman Goode's bill urging Mayor Nutter to reach a fair contract with city workers brings more impassioned demands from city employees of all stripes.
Union: Nutter went back on his word regarding contracts
Municipal workers showed up in force at City Council this morning to support Councilman Goode's bill urging Mayor Nutter to offer employees AFSCME district councils 33 and 47 a fair contract after three years without one. They described personal despair and hardships; a sense of outrage over the city's reversal on past promises; and a work environment where morale is low and attrition is increasing.
Catherine Scott, president of AFSCME DC 47, told Council, "In spring 2009, Mayor Nutter's negotiating team stated to our team that AFSCME DC 47 would receive financial credit for any savings we could recommend which the city could implement." She claims they came up with savings of $35 million but "no credit was ever given." The savings, she said, included $4 million saved last year by releasing nonviolent offenders into supervised probation; a 1 percent sale tax increase; and a recommended (but never implemented) proposal to save $8 million by replacing contracted Health Department employees with city workers.
"Instead," she said, "Mayor Nutter's administration has punished workers by freezing their step increases."
A Parks & Rec worker said she had lost $6,000 a year by giving up pay increases, and that she now has to explain to her children why her family can no longer afford vacations. Pamela Robinson, with the Department of Human Services, said she's worked longer and longer hours at the expense of her family. She took the job "so every child will reach its full potential. It's disheartening to know the city would not want the same for me and my child." Cynthia Preston, a registered nurse at the Department of Public Health, was wondering why she took a $20,000 pay cut to work for the city, only to find her promised raises and benefits disappear.
Council did in the end pass Goode's legislation. Whether it will finally help city workers get a contract remains to be seen.
The logic doesn't follow.. if you could take vacations before a planned pay increase, and that increase never came, why would you no longer be able to take vacations?— Politburo
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