Tony works for the Forestry Division as a forestry technician out of the Bagley field office. He has been a member of Local 1623 for 2 years, and currently serves as the secretary.
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Tony works for the Forestry Division as a forestry technician out of the Bagley field office. He has been the secretary of Local 1623 for 3 years.
Early negotiations on the next AFSCME contract had no difficulty finding sticking points, but the preceding 2023-2025 tentative master agreement held firm on health insurance while proposing a rare-sized, long sought pay increase for public employees in over a hundred Locals, with a majority voting to accept, compensation changed upward for 18,000 public employees across all units, north, south, east and west, in all units and classes, for all steps, including all the waydown to the least paid and very lowest possible step: minimum wage.
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Early negotiations on the next AFSCME contract are having no difficulty finding sticking points, but the preceding 2023-2025 tentative master agreement did hold firm on health insurance while proposing a rare-sized, long sought pay increase for public employees in over a hundred Locals, with a majority voting to accept, compensation changed upward for 18,000 public employees across all units, north, south, east and west, in all units and classes, for all steps, including all the waydown to the least paid and very lowest possible step: minimum wage.
Giving raises to everyone is derided contemptuously as /sloppy peanut butter spreading,/ imprecise waste rather than proactive human resource retention insurance. Raises are always a number one common cause that connects every working person, but with doctors held in thrall to restrictive hospital agreements forming unions and insolvent Minnesota hospitals facing closure, take a look. What was that easy-peasy low deductible on your health insurance tier?
Giving raises to everyone is derided contemptuously as /sloppy peanut butter spreading,/ imprecise waste rather than proactive human resource retention insurance. Raises are always a number one common cause that connects every working person, but with doctors held in thrall to restrictive hospital agreements forming unions and insolvent Minnesota hospitals facing closure, take a look. What was that easy-peasy low deductible on your health insurance tier?
