Flint council fast-tracks new contracts for three city unions

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Marjory Raymer and Bryn Mickle | The Flint Journal September 17, 2007 20:05PM
Categories: Breaking News, Flint

FLINT -- New contract deals for three city unions were fast-tracked by Flint City Council on Monday, despite their $3 million price tag and what one council member called "suspect" timing.

About 750 city workers will receive one-time payments and signing bonuses as well as pay increases for three years:
About the contracts AFSCME Local 1600 and 1799 • Includes 592 employees • Lasts until June 30, 2010 • $1,200 for each employee as a one-time only payment to offset health care costs • Additional 4 percent raise, retroactive until July 1, 2007 • 2 percent raises in both 2008 and 2009 • Total cost: $2.9 million

-- Flint firefighters and dispatchers get signing bonuses of up to $6,000 each, an 11 percent pay hike retroactive to July 2006 and 2 percent raises for each of the next two years.

-- City workers in AFSCME Locals 1600 and 1799 get $1,200 as a one-time payment to help offset the cost of health care, an additional 4 percent raise retroactive to July 1 and 2 percent raises in both 2008 and 2009.

http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/newsnow/2007/09/flint_council_fasttracks_new_c.html

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1. I lived in that shithole for five years. I hope this means that, after 30 years of mismanagement,

the city leaders might actually be making some good decisions for the good of the whole city, not just the wealthy.