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Dozens of city employees tell Santa Fe council to fund AFSCME contract and preserve sick‑leave bank
Summary
AFSCME members and other city employees used the public‑comment period to press the council to fund a long‑delayed union contract, implement class-and-comp raises, preserve a negotiated sick‑leave bank and address recruitment and retention at the water and wastewater divisions.
Dozens of Santa Fe municipal employees and union leaders used the meeting’s public‑comment period to press the governing body to fund a pending AFSCME contract and to preserve negotiated benefits they said protect city workers.
Union leaders and rank‑and‑file staff from multiple departments — including water, wastewater, streets, parks, transit and library services — described years of protracted negotiations and asked the council to approve class‑and‑comp adjustments already studied by the city and to hold human resources to the current sick‑leave bank arrangements. “We are here demanding much needed and past‑due…
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