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LMPD officer charged with official misconduct after ordering woman to strip

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RE: LMPD officer charged with official misconduct after ordering...

June 17th, 2013 @ 7:27PM (11 years ago)

if you don't like it vote no, if you don't like the counter offer vote no. they cant make you take something you as a collective vote against.

Negotiations

June 17th, 2013 @ 9:09PM (11 years ago)
Posted by: Spaniard

Brother/ Sister,

If you don't like this offer, what makes you think you will like the offer the city will give you if this one doesn't get passed? Again, this is not there first offer people. This offer is the result of 2 1/2 years of hard work by the Negotiation Committee. This offer is one of hundreds of offer made at negotiation. One the Committee felt strongly is the best offer to bring to the membership. If this doesn't pass, this offer is off the table in its entirety and the city makes its offer (which you can bet will look nothing like the last, will be thee worst) to the committee. And when we turn that one down, it will go to Arbitration. A third party will look at the offers, most likely the last two. They will come up with there own opinion on what we deserve (a third party that knows nothing of what we as Law Enforcement do for a living)and present an offer to the city which is NOT BINDING regardless of what it is. The city can and will say NO this is what we're going to give them, which will be crap and we will HAVE TO TAKE IT END OF STORY, the fat lady has sung, that's all folk. A contract with 0% raises and paying $526.00 a month on Health Insurance. And why, because some people refuse to get informed and learn the facts. Go to the roll calls, talk to you elected board and delegates. Hell call or text your President and I will guarantee you he will answer any question(s) you have about the contract.

Get informed!

Be Safe!

RE: LMPD officer charged with official misconduct after ordering...

June 18th, 2013 @ 10:25AM (11 years ago)

I don't think you are being a jerk at all. Here is the issue. Collective bargaining works well in this state, until an agreement can't be reached and bargaining stops. Our current contract maintains our benefits as long as we are negotiating. When we stop negotiating those benefits can be stopped or changed until we have a new contract.

So, if we reject this contract offer then it is totally off the table. We CAN sit back down with the city but they don't have to offer anything that was in this offer. They can offer much less and if we don't agree and they refuse to change then we are no longer bargaining and go to non binding arbitration while they change are benefits under the old contract until we have a new one. Collective bargaining works well in Kentucky, but once the bargaining stops it goes down hill quickly for the worker. Once again, KY is behind the curve on arbitration. If the offer was garbage it wouldn't matter. Can't get worse so we might as well reject it and take our chances. But this offer isn't garbage. Have you read the summary? We gain benefits all the way through this thing and I don't see what the city has taken from us in there at all. My two cents.