The Buffalo News and the LUSJ are reporting on several city union contracts.
Three city unions have ratified groundbreaking new labor contracts that may save the city hundreds of thousands of dollars and enable it to privatize garbage service.
The Common Council ratified new deals with the city’s blue-collar union and the department head union last week. The police union ratified its contract Thursday and the Council is to vote on it Dec. 2.
All three contracts are for five years, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2008; they expire at the end of 2012.The ability to privatize the garbage collection is huge. Nice work by all on the give-and-take.
A key factor is the ability for the city to shift retirees into a less expensive Medicare Advantage health insurance plan, Mayor Michael W. Tucker said.
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If you ask me, that's how big boys negotiate.
I'll let you extrapolate that out any way you wish.
But a big Kudos and Huzza, it's a rather good deal for the city, and shows how people don't really have to give up much (if at all), and still come to a solution that's best for the city, and by city, I mean the people living in it.
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