Parking partners hit impasse with union
Source: By David Dagan and Eric Veronikis, Central Penn Business Journal (PA), 6/2/2008
Members of Harrisburg's parking union are not budging despite the latest round of wooing by a private partnership offering to lease the city's parking facilities for $215 million. It's been more than two weeks since the partnership led by New York City-based real estate investor Jacob A. Frydman mailed individual letters to union employees that promised higher pay and job protections if the deal goes through. ...... The letter was sent after union members voted unanimously not to negotiate with the partnership, Harrisburg Public Parking. Many parking authority employees declined to talk last week when approached by reporters. A handful who did were adamantly opposed to the lease.
......... . Lewis said the employees have watched enough takeovers to believe that what is promised does not match up with the real outcome. The union is the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 521b. A clause in the union's contract requires that union workers remain employed by the city's parking authority in the event of a lease.