On April 8, 2021, key UE union city worker leaders met with City Council member Sabrina Wooten. Representing UE at the meeting was Terry Green<\/strong> (Public Utilities, Water), Jock Hill<\/strong> (Public Utilities, Sewer), Devon Conley<\/strong> (Public Works, Highways\/Stormwater), Steven Wilson<\/strong> (Public Works, Mosquito Control) and Dante Strobino (UE International Rep). We had 5 other workers from different departments that had planned to attend that could not make it due to illness or family responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall the meeting went very well. Wooten stated very clearly that she supports us forming the union<\/strong> and will support a resolution for collective bargaining to pass the city council.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our members did an excellent job speaking about the three main issues in our petition<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through the course of the conversation, she explained that while the City Manager Duhaney is proposing 3% raise, she and city council member Aaron Rouse are asking for 5%, since that is what the teachers, and likely firefighters will get. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We had lots of discussion about how the entire pay scale is off track, that even a few % points would not catch us up because we are decades behind.<\/em> To that point, she did respond to the union’s request for information about the current market wage study. She said the city is currently planning to set aside $3 million<\/strong> in the budget to go towards these salary adjustments, this includes the entire city including us and police and fire. This amount of money is completely inadequate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said that the study will likely be complete sometime by the fall and the council will have to vote on when the raise goes into effect, if any. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lastly, she introduced us to Reverend Perez Gatling<\/strong>, who hosted the meeting at Ebenezer Baptist Church<\/strong>. Rev. Gatling is a powerful community and faith leader that pledged his support of our campaign. He agreed to bring our issues in front of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, a city-wide alliance of 25 churches of all faiths and races, to see if they will support us too! This could be huge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meeting was positive, but time for action is now! SIGN THE UNION CARD TODAY! On April 8, 2021, key UE union city worker leaders met with City Council member Sabrina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/locals.ueunion.org\/111\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/Wooten-meeting-4-8-2021-1024x768.jpg\")