LA City Professionals Sit Down With City Council to Say Furloughs Making Problem Worse
March 11, 2010—A message to LA City professionals from Michael Hunt of the Department of Transportation, an MOU 17 bargaining team member:
I joined more than 400 SEIU members at City Council on Feb. 24 to tell them about the negative impacts furloughs have on our jobs and to get the City moving on bargaining. Here's some of what I told them:
"I'm special funded and my furloughs do nothing to help solve the budget problem. Who's going to explain to all of these people that their concerns aren't going to be addressed because the city is furloughing people they don't need to?"
After my testimony, Councilmember Bill Rosendahl immediately pulled me out of the audience to discuss this issue in more detail. He assumed that because we had joined SEIU back in Nov. 2009, that we were no longer being furloughed. He was unaware that we're still beholden to the furloughs with our old contract. He wants to see this issue resolved as soon as possible and will assist any way he can. He asked me to keep him informed of our progress. Read more at SEIU721.org.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 07:27PM 


