This administration answered “Yes” to #46 on the State’s “Best Practices Questionnaire” which asked the following: “For any employee covered by a collective bargaining agreement, has your municipality eliminated longevity awards, bonuses or payments for employees hired on or after a specified date, and refrained from increasing longevity awards, bonuses or payments for employees hired before a specified date? The answer to this question can be “prospective” if such provisions were imposed by an arbitrator in binding arbitration but the municipality is seeking to eliminate such a contractual obligation through collective bargaining.”
Link to questionnaire:
Tony Luna and Charles Cuccia certified this
questionnaire on October 8, 2013.
The Lodi council adopted a new agreement with the
PBA (Local 26) on May 21, 2014. This was seven months after they answered “Yes”
to #46.
Here is Article 17 on “Longevity” from the new contract:
Link to contract:
Dropping
the maximum longevity rate from 12% to 10% for new employees hired after July
1, 2013 is not eliminating it.
If this council put the taxpayers first, they would
actually implement the State’s Best Practices.
Some people just lie about everything because they
believe they are smart enough (and Lodi is dumb enough) for them to get away
with it.
(This post is not about Chief Caruso's longevity payments. He has an individual employment contract, not a union contract. #45 on the questionnaire would deal with him.)
(This post is not about Chief Caruso's longevity payments. He has an individual employment contract, not a union contract. #45 on the questionnaire would deal with him.)
