Phoenix Is Forcing Its Blue-Collar Workers Into a Contract, Union Leader Says
Mario Ayala says the city of Phoenix is bullying its blue-collar workers.
Since January, the union representing those workers — the people who fix our streets and water mains, who maintain the trucks that collect our garbage, whose work is often least appreciated — has been negotiating with the city for a new contract.
They just barely have reached a tentative agreement, and today, the Phoenix City Council is scheduled to vote to impose a new two-year contract on those workers — a contract that the union says it had too little leverage in negotiating.
The current contract expires on June 30.
On Tuesday night, the 1,500 members of "Unit 2" voted in favor of the city’s final proposed agreement to them — the second of two agreements that will come before council members today. Council members could vote to impose the first, which is preferred by the city, or the second, approved by the union.
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