LOCAL 207 ORGANIZER THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF AFSCME
LOCAL 207 313-965-1601
or 313-796-3376 Issue #
52, November 16, 2003 www.afscme207.com
Demand Kilpatrick Pay AFSCME
Members the Money He Owes Us!
Demonstrate at the Coleman
A. Young Municipal Center
(City-County Building),
Larned Entrance
Thursday November 20, 2003 – 4:30
PM
City of Detroit AFSCME
Members – are you fed up with the City not paying:
·
retro
on our raise and wage adjustments?
·
shift
premium increases (with retro)?
·
clothing
and tool allowances?
·
additional
comp time for working our regular shifts during the August power outage?
·
frozen
minimum pay?
·
double
time for all time worked beyond sixteen hours in a work day?
·
(plus
late or missing pay checks)?
If
you are fed up, then you need to come to the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
at 4:30 PM on Thursday November 20th, and voice your opinion. This
insulting contract was ratified in July, and we’ve been waiting since then, but
management has not kept up their end of the bargain. Their delays and excuses
must stop now!
Local
207 has filed a law suit demanding that the City immediately pay up all the
money we’re owed. But law suits need mass action to win. We must demand that
the City to pay us now. Local 207 officers are tired of asking
management several times a week when we’re getting paid. Waiting has gotten us
nowhere. We must organize and fight for our money.
The
recently elected Local 207 Executive Board is ready to lead a unified fight. And the members’ participation is crucial.
Management knows we don’t like being jerked around. They don’t know what we’re
going to do about it. Let’s start showing them this week. The Local 207 leadership team is issuing an appeal and a challenge the members of all AFSCME locals – join us in
fighting for our rights. Griping to ourselves doesn’t work. Let’s take our
anger to City Hall!
This
is not a friendly protest. We are all mad as hell. If you owed the City money,
would they wait for you to pay them? Hell no. They would deduct the money right
out of your check. Letting management decide when to pay us the money they’ve
owed us for months is no longer an option. Be
there, Thursday November 20th, at the Coleman A. Young Municipal
Center