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City workers were told that in order to help balance the budget they were to take five days off without pay. I posted about how AFSCME 2191 voted to implement this policy here. In a hastily called initiative and with a badly worded ballot, members voted to take an entire week off. This would have been a hardship for many of the citizen’s this union serves. Thankfully, enough members complained and a new vote was granted. Now the union plans to take the five days off throughout the year. However their plan differs from another union.
Today it was reported.
The Fourth of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas will be unpaid holidays this year for members of one city- employees union.
Columbus City Council members approved an agreement last night with the Columbus Municipal Association of Government Employees [CMAGE], whose members overwhelmingly ratified the plan last week.
The Columbus Dispatch
That’s different than AFSCME 2191 whose plan is to take the Thursday before the Fourth, The Friday before Labor Day and Columbus Day, the Friday after Thanksgiving, and the Thursday before Christmas off. This gives members five weekends with four days off. They take the day around the holiday off and still get paid for the holiday. CMAGE will get three days off and work the day around the holiday. What doesn’t make sense about this is CMAGE tends to be made up of supervisors who will be working in a building like Columbus Public Health that has no employees or clients.
Could it be possible the Dispatch reported this wrong. I sent the reporter an email.
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