Well Thank God for some sanity in this area of ours. What is this Erie County Legislature thinking? Oh wait, I think I know…. How silly of me, I forgot they are run, controlled, bought and sold to the unions here. The supply the campaign cash, manpower, get signatures, man phone banks and print literature for their favorite legislators… Hint, they are all Democrats, ask Iannello, Kennedy. Reynolds and the rest of them…. Follow the money.
Now, let’s talk about idiots. First and foremost that title would go to John Orlando president of Local 1095. He thinks we are all idiots when it is actually the reverse of that. He and the legislature they claim that title. Where in the Taylor Law are we required to give anyone a cash bonus? Is there such a clause? Hardly. The Taylor Law handcuffs us the taxpayers and allows the unions and idiots like Orlando in control because during any contract negotiations they give up nothing, so really calling them contract negotiations is misleading. All the contracts are one sided, what are we the taxpayers willing to give up so the unions can gain. As far as I’m concerned the Erie County Legislators that attempted to do this are simply trying to circumnavigate the contract negotiation process and screw us further to the wall.
Seeing that there are NO contract negotiations, I say keep the current contracts exactly the way they are for as long as it takes until the unions agree to do something, anything to show us they will bargain in good faith and not just grab for more and more. The Taylor protects them and the current contract continues on. That needs to stop and real talks need to start.
Control board rejects proposal to pay $600 to county’s blue-collar workers
Union president calls control board members a ‘group of idiots’
After bouncing between the Erie County Legislature and the state-appointed control board for six months, a proposal to pay $600 apiece to 1,200 members of the county’s blue-collar union appears dead.
The measure, which would have settled a three-year-old bargaining impasse, was discarded Monday by the control board after County Executive Chris Collins again labeled it a taxpayer giveaway the underfunded county can ill afford.
The rejection left John Orlando, president of Local 1095, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, seeing red.
In approving the one-shot payments in March, Orlando said, “the Legislature honored the Taylor Law,” the labor relations statute covering most public employees in the state.
“This group of idiots” — the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority — “said no,” Orlando fumed.
The Legislature had agreed to give $600 to each AFSCME worker who was on the payroll at the end of 2005 to settle an impasse from that year. The onetime payment, which lawmakers called “appropriate,” would have cost the government about $800,000.
Collins argued then that the payout was unaffordable and might tempt AFSCME and other unions to use the Legislature as an escape valve in bargaining. The board kicked the proposal back to the lawmakers, saying they needed to back the measure in stronger language.
The Legislature evidently complied, but after listening to Collins, the control board turned down the payments anyway.
Vice Chairman Robert Glaser, Secretary Stanley Keysa and directors Ken Kruly, John Johnson and Joseph E. Goodell all agreed with Collins’ contention that the payments would require invading the county fund balance, which the executive said is “in the low $40 millions — not anywhere near where we need to be.”
The administration aims to eventually increase the balance to $55 million to $60 million, or 5 percent of annual operating costs, as required by the County Charter, Collins said.
“The county is not in a cash cow situation,” Johnson said.
Noting that the control board has generally stayed out of labor matters, Kruly said Collins “should have the opportunity to work out a deal” with AFSCME and five other county unions currently working without contracts.
“I’m concerned about precedent here — injecting the board into the process a tiny bit,” Goodell said.
“A vote for this item would not send the right message,” Glaser added. “The correct action needs to take place at the bargaining table.”
Louis J. Thomas, a control board director and retired regional head of the United Steel Workers Union, abstained. He said lawyers warned him that commenting or voting on the issue would be a conflict of interest.
tbuckham@buffnews.com
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