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Patientman,

I will argue. There are two sides to the story and you have only seen one. In regards to the addendums tonthe contracts (side deals) The union and the city admin negotiated these terms. The union gave up something for this (something never brought up here) the union ratified it. Here’s the interesting part. The city agreed and payed it out. Whose responsibility is it to take it to council? The city admin. This has very little to do with the union. If there is any wrongdoing is completely on the shoulders of the former mayor and Solicitior.

Secondly, there are many more addendums that were not voted on by council. Union gave up clothing allowance for 2 years ($440,000 savings). Union took a 5% pay cut, gave up holiday pay, etc. savings of well into the millions. That was never ratified. So if one is no good then they all are no good and city will (in my estimation) owe a lot more than it saved.

But the simple fact that it was agreed to and approved (not by council, I know) but was paid out means there certainly isn’t any intent to defraud by the union.

And the actual contract. The only one allowed to edit the contract is the city admin. Union has absolutely no access to that document. This was and is a admin issue and not a union issue.