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> Why the fuck is a union spending $1 million on party politics instead of
> on organizing workers?
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> McEntee is the crazy piecard here.
http://www.afscme.org/publications/aim/aim040213.htm February 13, 2003
FIRST CONTRACTS APPROVED...
IN NEW MEXICO - More than 7,000 state workers represented by Council 18 now have a first contract with the state. Following a two-and-a-half week balloting process, members voted by a whopping 1,733 to 63 to accept the two-year agreement, hammered out during five months of negotiations. Under the contract, which runs through 2005, workers will get two consecutive pay raises for the first time in several years. The council fought for, and won, a raise of 49 cents per hour starting in January (it would have been just 36 cents otherwise). A second raise of 2 percent will come in 2005. The number of employees receiving health benefits increases in each year of the contract.
IN CHICAGO - A two-year struggle has finally produced a contract for workers at Orchard Village, a nonprofit agency serving individuals with developmental disabilities throughout Chicago's northern suburbs. The three-year contract will raise wages of the 150 workers by 4 percent, give signing bonuses of $500 to full-time workers and $320-400 to part-timers. Wages and benefits for the second and third years will be negotiated based on state funding levels.
-- Michael Pugliese