Published April 08, 2010, 02:18 PM
BUZZ Blog: Take a read through the AFSCME contract before the council votes on it
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The contract
Chamber of Commerce Public Policy Director Andy Peterson has long touted the idea of putting the AFSCME contract out for public review for a couple weeks before it gets voted on by the city council.
Well, you don't get two weeks, but how's five days? Here's the contract in all it's contractual glory. I honestly haven't had a chance to thoroughly read through it yet, but what I'm looking for: what the city gave up to get a strike-averting deal reached, and what the union gave up. On a cursory glance it seems like the city largely gave in to what the union wanted: the four-forced-days off are gone, the seniority language that ticked the union off remains intact. In fact, I'm having a tough time seeing what the union gave up, if anything at all.
If you want, you can play along with me and compare and contrast to the first two contract proposals the union rejected (note: there are some union notes scattered throughout some of these docs). It also might help to compare/contrast to the current union contract.
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