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4(E) MD V Q /9/ ? St.Poul L5spotch Thurs.,Nov.9, 8
Contract: City, union settle
one and a half cents per hour. ing its public works employees its exposure to severance pay 1 '
Continued from Page 1(E) "Nobody would disagree that the more than surrounding commun- ability and put no lid on its cont.
cents out of the hourly base sal- one and a half cents per hour ities,Blank said. heap i n to the employees'
aryand addingit after a seven health insurance benefits.
isn't a major economic differ- But Mayor John Greavu con-
, percent increase was applied to ence,"said Acting Manager Eric tended:"At the time we passed "OUR SEVERANCE pay ex
the new hourly salary.However, Blank. that thing we should have said posure has gone up 10 times ju •
the Council last week agreed to 'OK,the 15 cents won't be used through negotiations,"Blank
.calculate the rcenta a in- "But the precedence in how we g g
creases with the 15 cents in the' determine the wage may break for overtime.'But we didn't say saidAfter the meeting,he not
base rate. this city,"he warned the Council. that." "Going into the negotiations w
Calculating the 15 cents into the The method of wage calculat- felt seven percent was reason-
THE CITY AND union posi- base salary will eventually ing is a negotiable item in the able."
tions represented a difference of "snowball"Maplewood into pay- next contract,said Jerry Ser- But he added:"We settled in
fling,the union's representative the range of 10 to 11 percent."
from the American Federation
of State,County and Municipal Serfhng said he didn't agree
Employees.He said the contract that the settlement is that mu ,. 4
settlement was"the best we Regarding severance pay,he .
could do this time around." said:"I don't know whether it'4 a
new benefit."
Meanwhile,Blank said the city i
did"poorly"on the settlement. Other fringe benefits,he
He contended the city increased asserted,are only a minor co