R.L.B. employees question outsourcing jobs

Source: By FRANK ABDERHOLDEN, Sun Times (IL), August 22, 2009

 

A debate is brewing over whether or not the village should be outsourcing more work, specifically in the public works department.  The public works employees are members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 31 and they recently passed out a flier questioning the financial sense of privatizing some of their work, saying it jeopardizes high-quality services, offers an opportunity for corruption and leads to a loss of accountability.

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