Union calls for five NA hirings / City cut some positions because of budget, tabbed part-timer to fill another
Source: By ERIC SCOTT CAMPBEL, News Tribune (IN), March 31, 2006 07:20 pm
A city workers’ union has filed two grievances against New Albany, alleging misconduct in filling one job and in eliminating several others by attrition. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1861 addressed the city’s Board of Public Works and Safety at a special Thursday afternoon meeting. Branch President Mickey Thompson explained the two grievances, filed March 9 and March 14. The March 9 grievance states that instead of a part-time, nonunion West Haven Cemetery worker filling a new full-time position at the cemetery, the city should have first contacted the employees laid off when city sanitation services were privatized at the end of 2005, according to AFSCME’s contract with New Albany.