Group faults police labor proposal

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100128/NEWS01/701289839

Published Thursday January 28, 2010

By Maggie O’Brien
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

A group of Omaha businesspeople who have criticized the city’s fire union contract also took issue Wednesday with the proposed labor agreement with police.

Dave Nabity, a financial adviser, former Republican gubernatorial candidate and one of the leaders of the Omaha Alliance for the Private Sector, said an outsider, with no ties to the city or the union, should oversee negotiations for a new police contract.

“It’s pretty simple,” Nabity said. “The city needs to start over and get completely out of these collective bargaining agreements because they are too expensive.”

His group also has argued that negotiations for a fire union contract, which are under way, should be handled by an outsider.
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Nabity and members of his group will attend today’s meeting of the Omaha Personnel Board to voice opposition to the proposed five-year police contract. The public also will have the chance to weigh in during a public hearing at the meeting.

The police union approved the contract Jan. 16.

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