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Local 955 tells council wage-opener priorities: market adjustments, step-scale fixes and binding arbitration
Summary
Local 955, representing about 300 city employees, presented wage-opener priorities including missed pay‑grade adjustments, additional step scale steps to address compression, help for DOT-related sleep studies and binding arbitration for grievances.
Andrew Hutchinson, union representative for Local 955, told the Columbia City Council that his unit will pursue wage-opener items this year focused on market adjustments, step-scale fixes and better grievance enforcement.
“Most of them focus on economic issues since this is the wage opener,” Hutchinson said, identifying pay‑grade and market adjustments, step-scale changes and ordinance revisions as the union’s bargaining objectives. He said the city previously treated pay‑grade adjustments as a management right and that the union will press to have those issues negotiated this year.
Hutchinson said the current…
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