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Do You Think Having a Coalition of City Unions Will Benefit Union Members in Upcoming Negotiations? |
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By and Photos by Slobodan Dimitrov
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Note: Building Trades crafts represent approximately 2,000 city craft workers in Los Angeles. We are expecting difficult and lengthy negotiations with the city’s Employee Relations Representative in this years upcoming contract negotiations.
Damir Tomas
IBEW Local 11
“It’s critical that during these negotiations we are all united and show the city that we are of a single mind in our efforts to improve the overall working conditions for our membership around the city.”
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Art Limon
Painters and Allied Trades Local 1991
“It is a good thing for us to get together. If we’re committed to the process, we can only benefit.”
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Vic Marrero
IBEW Local 45
“ I’ve been involved with city negotiations for about 25 years, the locals have to be united so that there won’t be a benefits and contract disparity.”
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Eduardo Meza
IBEW Local 11
“This united approach is a new and positive thing for the trades and the public unions.”
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Larry Bickett
IBEW Local 11
“I have high hopes that the building trades with all the bargaining units, working together, is a team that will be highly effective for us this time around.”
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