UNIT II EMPLOYEES
VOTE TO RATIFY CONTRACT
July 20, 2009
Civilian public-safety employees in the city of Chicago have ratified the city's last and best contract offer.
The vote follows weeks of intense negotiations between the city and Local 73, with the threat of layoffs looming for about 300 Local 73 members if a compromise could not be worked out.
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Local 73 members: 'We don't want anybody laid off'
June 13, 2009
Hard-working SEIU Local 73 members are sending a loud-and-clear message to Mayor Richard Daley: "We don't want anybody laid off."
That was the near unanimous position of an overflow crowd of members who turned out for Local 73's regular quarterly membership meeting on June 13.
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Click here to read the City of Chicago Annual Report for 2008.
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