"Contract Update?"..... nothing but more crap from NAGE

NAGE web page has the "update:" given beloW

These guys just keep slingin' the old BS.... the update says nothing, nothing useful anyway.

Local 509 already has their agreement in hand, with slightly superior provisions for the pay raise than what NAGE previously posted.... of course NAGE is now talking like they never posted the previous concession agreement.

My take on it... is this:

While Holway and his over-paid do-nothing minions and toadies were in Disney land pounding down cocktails (at the members expense)....

Mike Grunko was here in Mass pounding on the table with Deval's negotiators hammering out a deal (albeit a lousy one)...

... but at least its something the members can vote (hopefully vote down....send these guys a message that we've had enough of being treated like second class citizens.)

Contract Update (more meaningless BS from NAGE)

December 9, 2009

As you are aware, NAGE has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Commonwealth that must be voted on by the membership and approved by the legislature. (That would be the SAME legislature that has refused to fund our contract...and they've done it before as well..... they have shown they can not be trusted....) Before we will put this contract out to our members for a vote, however, there are important details that must be worked out to ensure that the administration upholds its end of the deal....(translation: "we decided to fly down to Florida last week to pound down some cocktails and lay in the sun, rather than stick around to work out theses "important details".... can you blame us??? Ha, ha, ha")

Most significantly, we need the administration to tell us how they're going to handle the reimbursement of health insurance co-pays and deductibles. While this reimbursement program is assured with the ratification of the contract (what just like our current contract was assured that we would be getting a stinkin 1% on July 1st...after two years of zero%???...don't you realize by now that we are not dealing with credible people?...), our members need to know how it's all going to work.
We understand that this process has been frustrating and that members want a final agreement as soon as possible.(WRONG!!! we don't want a "final agreement that puts us in a worse position than we're in Now!!! ) We want to assure you that we're moving it along as quickly as possible. We also want to remind you that the legislature will not be back in session until January, and that they have to approve any agreement we ratify....(No kidding!.... I think we get it by now..... these contracts aren't worth the paper they are printed on....

.....it is apparent that the Legislature has no intention of funding any pay raises for State employees.....

.......the state has money problems and the Local Municipal Unions have lucrative contracts that must be honored!....

....screw the state employees..... they have demonstrated something as well..... by allowing themselves to get screwed by NAGE year after year and having done nothing about getting rid of NAGE.... they have shown they are chumps that can be safely ignored....
We have time to make sure that this gets done right, and we won't ask you to vote on a contract until we know that members will receive their reimbursements in a timely manner. (What a crock of nothig)