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Metro employees, unions press council to restore COLA after mayor trims pay-plan increase
Summary
Metro employees and union representatives testified that the mayor’s proposed budget reduces the cost-of-living adjustment and recommended that the council restore the COLA and fully fund the pay plan endorsed by the Civil Service (Veil) Commission.
Hundreds of Metro employees, union leaders and school staff used the council’s public comment period to press the Metropolitan Council to restore a cost-of-living adjustment and to fully fund a pay plan recommended by the Civil Service commission.
Multiple speakers told the council they had been promised a pay plan that included a countywide COLA and step increases; they said the mayor’s proposed budget cut the COLA to 1 percent and reduced some…
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