HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 01-29 Maplewood Employes Vote to Unionize DISPATCH Mciplewood Ernployes
,Voteto Unionize
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Maplewood's. : lerical ernment, some council- not where the union has
and technical employes men pointed out. been certified."
have voted to unionize. Greavu, in comment- The new local of the
And Councilman John ing about the employes union will include about
Greavu indicated at a situation, said:. "Some- 20 employes, according
recent city council meet- how we have to get this to Tom Hennessy, busi-
ing that the employes thing straightened out. ness agent for Council 91
action was prompted, in It's still our responsibili- •of the American Federa-
part, by lack of a 1974 ty as a council , to sit tion of State, County and
contract settlement. d o w n (with the em- Municipal Employes,
"I feel thisf,council p 1 o y e s) even though AFL-CIO.
should sit down and get we're under the manag- The Maplewood local
these wages settled once er form of government. already has elected its
and for all," Greavu' We aren't getting any officers,he said.
stated. place now." He idenitified them as
"We're doing it piece- Mayor Robert Bruton Ray . H i t e, president;
meal," he added. "We're •nterjected: "We can't, William Cass, vice presi
hurting everybody in the dent; and Betty Selvog,
village. They `(the em- secretary.
ployes) are getting mad
The local's first prior
and I don't blame ity, Hennessy reported,
them." will be negotiation of a
new contract.
The employes late last City Manager Michael
year, prior to the deci- Miller said there would
sion to unionize, had be no problem with for-
asked for an informal mal recognition of the
meeting with,.•,the city union.
council. But he objected to the
But the council, with union's efforts to include
the exception of Greavu, City Treasurer Arlene
talked against„,„4uch a Hagen as a member.
meeting be ase em- She should be consid
ployps didn't ,-roast city ered a "confidential em-
administrators to at- ploye,"Miller argued.
tend. "The treasurer, he
That 's ill al, espe- explained, "keeps per-
cially under,,,.trte city sonnel records that in
manager for ,of gov- ' negotiations m o r e or
' " less serve as our bible."
Hennessy said the k-
sue over the treasurer
would, he settled in me-
diation.