EAA UNION OPPOSES EXTENDED TERMS FOR CITY COUNCIL.Byline: KERRY CAVANAUGH Staff Writer Adding money and manpower to opposition efforts, a city labor union labor union: see union, labor. pledged Thursday to help defeat a measure on the November ballot that would give City Council members an extra term in office. The vote this week by the board of the Engineers and Architects Association comes as the union representing 7,400 municipal employees battles the City Council and mayor for higher wages. ``This proposition and the secretive se·cre·tive adj. Having or marked by an inclination to secrecy; not open, forthright, or frank. See Synonyms at silent. se process that brought it about are the best examples of the lack of transparency in city government,'' EAA EAA Experimental Aircraft Association EAA European Aluminium Association (Brussels, Belgium) EAA European Acoustics Association EAA Export Administration Act EAA Everglades Agricultural Area EAA European Association of Archaeologists Executive Director Robert G. Aquino said in a statement. ``And all unions should be wary of supporting these issues for the restrictions it will place on their ability to represent their members' interests before City Council.'' The ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a reform portion of Proposition R could require union representatives to register as lobbyists. But the EAA may be the only city union to oppose Proposition R. So far, three of the city's most influential unions have indicated that they support the term limit/ethics reform measure. The Police Protective League contributed $25,000 and the United Firefighters Local 112 contributed $7,500 to the Yes on Prop. R campaign. The Service Employees International Union Local 347, which represents more than 10,000 city workers, endorsed Proposition R last week. SEIU SEIU Service Employees International Union SEIU Special Education Intake Unit SEIU Secondary Education Interdisciplinary Unit SEIU Software Engineering Institute Union Local 347 Business Manager Julie Butcher said union leaders felt the lack of consistency on the City Council -- with two, four-year terms -- doesn't promote good government. The EAA, however, has had a more contentious relationship with the City Council in recent months. Workers went on a two-day strike in August to protest a salary package. Prior to the walkout, the City Council voted to end the stalemate stale·mate n. 1. A situation in which further action is blocked; a deadlock. 2. A drawing position in chess in which the king, although not in check, can move only into check and no other piece can move. tr.v. with EAA and impose a four-year contract that had no raise the first year and raises totaling 6.25 percent over the next three years. That's less than Department of Water and Power workers received last year, but comparable to contracts finalized See finalization. by other civilian unions. Organizers of the Not PropR campaign committee said they are happy to have EAA support. kerry.cavanaugh(at)dailynews.com (213) 978-0390 |
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