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City Files Unfair Labor Practices Charge Against CSEA
Posted on Monday, August 12 @ 18:01:54 EDT by jfbailey
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WPCNR Evening City Star Reporter. By John F. Bailey. August 12, 2002: The city filed suit Monday with the Public Employment Relations Board in Albany, charging the local Civil Services Employee Association with unfair labor practices for failing to negotiate in good faith.
The city, according to George Gretsas, the Mayor's executive Officer, is seeking for the Public Employment Relations Board to order the union to the negotiating table.
Gretsas said the suit filed Monday documents stating that the city had asked the union local 1000, headed by Joseph Roche, engineer in the Building Department for the City of White Plains, to begin negotiations 19 times, and each time the union failed to set a date to begin negotiations.
On June 30, 2002, the current contract with the CSEA expired. Presently, Gretsas said, non-CSEA employees are receiving raises, while CSEA union-members, as a result of union failure to come to the bargaining table, are continuing at the rate of pay of the expired contract.
Joseph Roche, head of the local CSEA union, has been asked to comment to WPCNR, but as of yet has not contacted WPCNR with a comment or a reason for the delay in negotiations.
On July 23, in response to the last city letter of July 17, the CSEA wrote saying it was prepared to begin negotiations August 6. However, when the city wrote agreeing to that day, the union public relations representative, identified as a Mr. Sparber in the complaint, wrote they could not negotiate on the sixth due to another commitment.
Gretsas said that pay increase was not the issue here because pattern bargaining is followed in the case of pay issues. Gretsas also said that he had no idea what issues the union was prepared to discuss because they have not negotiated in the six months leading up to the expiration of the contract.
Asks Board to Force CSEA to Post Notice Admitting it Failed to Negotate.
The city's suit, addressed to Monte Klein, Director of Public Employment and Practices and Representation, asks the Board to find the CSEA to have engaged in an improper practice; order the CSEA to cease and desist from such conduct now and in the future; order the CSEA to negotiate in good faith; and direct the CSEA to post a notice in areas "conspicuous to all unit members that it is and has been engaging in unlawful activities and that it will cease from such activities now and in the future." Gretsas had no opinion as to what "further relief" (asked for in the suit) consisted of.
Common Council has "No reaction."
Asked if the Common Council endorsed the suit, Mr. Gretsas said the Common Council, when informed of the city's intention to file the suit, had "no reaction," and did not tell the city not to file the action.
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