Posted on 04/29/2009 7:47:38 AM PDT by SmithL
The federal judge overseeing Vallejo's bankruptcy petition has ordered city and employee labor negotiators to meet with a mediator in an effort to break a stubborn stalemate that's lasted nearly a year.
The decision comes at the same time as details on a severance package for Vallejo City Manager Joe Tanner — a chief labor negotiator for the city — are finalized, city officials said.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Michael McManus' Monday ruling named Oregon bankruptcy court judge Elizabeth L. Perris as a referee to help negotiators for the city and two employee unions discuss whether employee contracts should be dissolved, to modify existing contracts and to discuss damage claims.
A city agreement with either union would allow McManus to avoid the unprecedented city request to dissolve its employee contracts. McManus has ruled he may legally take such a step, if warranted.
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Dissolve a union contract? What’s the worse thing that could happen? The city hire workers who can actually do the job?
Working as a public employee shouldn't be a ticket to poverty but neither should it be like hitting the lottery.
Public employee unions are doing to municipalities and states what the UAW did for GM.
Last week coming back from a vacation south of Vallejo, we drove back on the road NE of Costco.
There was a sign by the Vallejo Fire Station stating that station was closed and to call 911 if there was a problem.
Apparently after normal work hours, Vallejo notifies the police and fire stations in Benicia and American Canyon if there is a problem.
That may be an opportunity for these two cities to expand and adopt certain sections of Vallejo without the unions.
Vallejo is a living model of what will happen to a city run by left wingers and left wing unions.
It must have changed a lot since I lived there in the early 1980’s.
The outlying areas underwent a lot of changes re shopping centers and decent home developments.
There was an attempt to revitalize the downtown area. Like most cities that failed because the thugs, hookers, dopies and their dealers stayed and did their daily things there.
Vallejo could be a jewel in the bay area if the thugs and unions didn’t control so much of it.
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