Airport workers losing jobs / Officials approve contract with outside company
Source: BY SHERI McWHIRTER, Record Eagle (MI), 12/20/2006
Harvey Nicholson worked in maintenance at Gaylord Regional Airport for more than 10 years. Six days before Christmas he learned he's about to lose his job. ……. Otsego County commissioners unanimously voted to approve a contract worth more than $186,000 with an outside company for maintenance and other services at the small airport on the west side of Gaylord. The decision will cost three local residents their longtime jobs by year's end and is expected to save the county about $20,000. "It's small savings in light of what you're losing in experienced employees,” said union representative Ellen Keith, of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees.