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Grand Junction City Council Urges 'No' Vote on SB 25

by KREX News Room
by Danielle Kreutter

Story Created: Jan 23, 2013 at 10:33 PM MDT

Story Updated: Jan 23, 2013 at 10:33 PM MDT

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Senate Bill 25 passed it's first vote in the state Senate on Wednesday but the Grand Junction City Council has come out against the bill that aims at giving firefighters more leverage in negotiating and expressing their grievances.

Grand Junction City Council members are calling the legislation an "unfunded mandate' for local governments that may want to handle those issues differently.

"We have our own collective bargaining sessions with our employees, we work out our own salary packages with them through a negotiation through benefits, they're happy, we're happy so we see no reason to change," said Grand Junction Mayor Bill Pitts.

Pitts also says the Senate bill would force measure similar to the one that the local community already voted against in 2000.

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No more unions said on Friday, Jan 25 at 6:39 AM

Collective bargaining should never be allowd for government or pubic employees. It drives up the cost of everything and holds government services hostage to get what they wany.

Floyd said on Thursday, Jan 24 at 8:44 PM

The more control granted to the unions brings us closer to nationalized labor. The goal of the liberal agenda. Once they reach that goal, the idea of good wages will be controlled by the federal gov't. The wages will be lowered and everyone will receive the same wage, there will only be two wage scales, peasant and party big wigs.

Limits to everything said on Thursday, Jan 24 at 4:48 PM

Federal Constitution sets some basic limit. This is especially true of gun control laws. As long as state and local laws don't try to be more restrictive than the Federal ones, there's no problem. But this is one of the areas where the Democrats want "local control" because they can't get "Federal Control". Their standard hypocritical mode is to try to get power and control wherever they can.

Not so Collective said on Thursday, Jan 24 at 4:45 PM

Collective bargaining for government employees is only ok if you a) diligently measure performance and b) fire those who don't perform to standards set by the public. But public employee unions are created to prevent any sort of real performance standards.

Agree said on Thursday, Jan 24 at 7:12 AM

I agree with the Mayor, but keep in mind this also goes for gun control laws. it should be up to states and local goverments not the feds,

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