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Menlo Park: Tentative deal would gives 3% pay boost to city employees

Original post made on Oct 6, 2015

Thirty-six supervisorial and management employees of the city of Menlo Park would receive a 3 percent increase in base salaries under a tentative agreement with the city on a new two-year labor contract, the city announced Oct. 5.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 2:32 PM

Comments (3)

Posted by Ebbie
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Oct 6, 2015 at 7:47 pm

Unfortunately this doesn't apply to contract workers, of which there are many for the city. They must pay union dues, but get no raises and no guarantee of a job. Many contract workers have been on the books for over 10 years, with no hope of being hired on permanently. When do these poor strung along souls get a break?


Posted by too bad
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Oct 7, 2015 at 1:43 pm

There is nothing fair in government. Do away with unions, and being more competitive would be a good start, but this will never be. It's government.


Posted by Corner Office
a resident of Atherton: other
on Oct 7, 2015 at 2:13 pm

"Do away with unions"

Funny that conservatives want to Make America Great Again, and hark back to the 50's and 60's - the very heyday of worker protections and the unions that built the American working class.

And, of course, doing away with government worker unions is a direct rebuttal of the work of Ronald Reagan. It was Ronnie who signed the bill allowing municipal unions in California. He also said: “Where Free Unions and Collective Bargaining are Forbidden, Freedom is Lost” in a 1980 Labor Day speech.

Reagan remains the only president to have belonged to a union, spending six terms as president of the AFL/CIO related SAG. He led a strike, fergoshsakes! Web Link

Beat up those scabs, Ronnie!

Patco? Well, Ronnie had to say things to get elected and then break those promises to serve the corporate masters who donated to his campaigns; here is his Big Campaign Lie - Web Link

Working Americans deserve and have earned the right to organize. History proves it's good for America.

Make America Great Again - Unionize

Last word belongs to the big dude in the Fiat, Il Papa:

"Not paying fairly, not giving a job because you are only looking at how to make a profit -- that goes against God"

...... Pope Francis



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