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Teamsters and residents press Malden council over layoffs tied to failed override
Summary
Union and residents told the Malden City Council that planned layoffs and budget cuts following a failed override are hurting long-serving employees and single parents; Teamsters Local 25 said it filed labor charges and urged the council to honor collective-bargaining layoff rules.
At a Malden City Council meeting that suspended committee rules to allow public comment, Steven South, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 25, said the city notified union members of "significant layoffs" affecting more than a dozen employees and that the union had filed unfair-labor charges with the Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations. "We were notified, about a week ago exactly, that there was gonna be significant layoffs within the city of Malden and specifically with the Teamsters Union bargaining units," South told the council and residents.
South said the union represents more than 200 city employees and that the layoff notices…
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