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Council sends AFSCME contract back to union after sharp debate over dispatcher pay
Summary
Following lengthy finance committee debate, the city council voted to reject the AFSCME memorandum of agreement as presented and sent it back to the administration and the union for further negotiation, citing concerns about pay inequities for dispatchers.
The Fall River City Council voted on Nov. 25 to reject and return the proposed memorandum of agreement with AFSCME Council 93, Local 3177 to the administration and the union for further negotiation after a broad finance committee discussion about pay equity and fiscal impacts.
Councilors voiced particular concern that MIH/EMS dispatchers — represented in a different bargaining unit — either already earn or would receive pay steps that leave police and fire dispatchers at a relative…
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