The local filed a grievance today officially taking the county to task on the recent letters sent by Human Resources Bureau Chief Kim Gilmore. The Union alleges that the letters violate at least three different provisions of the collective bargaining agreement and seeks to have the letters that were sent to members retracted, rescinded or repudiated.
While some who received the letters were in the bottom 20 of seniority, a couple were in the sixties. Why this has occurred is unknown and the union is still trying to determine who received the letters from Mr. Gilmore.
One thing is clear: the budget battle continues and the hearing that is scheduled for tommorrow, February 22, 2007 will be decisive. We need to make sure that we are present and hold all commissioners accountable. We must ensure that the twelve commissioners who supported the Claypool amendment stay strong and hold on and we need to convince the other five to go in the right direction-and restore core services and frontline jobs.
The last grievance, filed when we received notice of the furloughs, was withdrawn after the County agreed to rescind the notice and the notion of a four or three day work week.
We wont stop fighting because the battle is not over.
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