Union says Redding Mayor is Wasting Staff Time and Tax Dollars

Thursday, October 08, 2009

REDDING - The leadership of United Public Employees of California, Local 792 weighed in today following the approval of the Redding City Council to move forward on a ballot proposal to modify employees retirement benefits.
“This is nothing but pure political grandstanding by Mayor Bosetti and a waste of city employee time and tax payer dollars.” said Chris Darker, Business Manager for United Public Employees of California.
The Redding City Council doesn’t need a ballot measure to increase or cut wages and benefits. “Citizens across the State of California have already had too much government run by initiative at the state level that has put the California economy in the toilet. Do we really want to repeat what the State has done? If those who are elected by the citizens don’t want to make those decisions, step aside,” said Darker.
“Having sat at the city bargaining table, I can tell you the City and the Police Association agreed to have the City pay the employee share of PERS retirement instead of increasing salaries. This was a concession granted by the Police Association at that time to save the City money in salaries,” said Darker.