Thursday, November 10, 2011

Lawsuit Seeks Retroactive Raises For City Employees

According to a lawsuit filed by the union representing attorneys who work for the City, Villaraigosa and the City Council broke their written promise to refrain from laying off employees.

The consideration for that promise was an agreement by employees to forego raises. The remedy they seek, therefore, is retroactive raises.

Nice work, Mr. Mayor.  Read all about it at CourthouseNews.com.
Posted by Walter Moore at 6:47 AM
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  1. As I recall, the latest Letter of Agreement, voted on by the members of the Coalition, agreed to drop legal action regarding this very subject. However, the bargaining unit for the City Attorneys rejected the Letter of Agreement -- twice -- so they now have to file on their own behalf. I do believe they have a good chance of prevailing, since the language in the original MOU amendment (Oct 2009) was pretty clear that, failing "Mutual Gains Bargaining" techniques with respect to furloughs in FY 2010-11, the two parties were to use "traditional" bargaining techniques. Instead, the City went straight to imposing furloughs.

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