{"id":681,"date":"2006-10-06T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/union-voting-on-once-seemingly-dead-agreement\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T20:02:00","slug":"union-voting-on-once-seemingly-dead-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/union-voting-on-once-seemingly-dead-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Union voting on once seemingly dead agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/DonaAnaCounty.16.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/DonaAnaCounty.13.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Weeks after the prospect of an agreement appeared to be dead, <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>\u2019s jail and blue-collar workers are voting today on whether to accept a tentative bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The union and county representatives came close to an agreement in August, but a deal seemed to fall apart when the sides failed to reach an agreement on whether to include a \u201cfair-share\u201d clause that would require the county to fire workers who didn\u2019t agree to join the union. At that point, the county announced that arbitration would begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The union then dropped the demand for fair share because arbitration would have delayed pay raises for several more months, Ed Misquez, the union negotiator, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/ci_4448446\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are about 220 employees in the union. Negotiations have been ongoing for almost two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Misquez told the newspaper the proposed contract includes a 3.6-percent pay raise and a measure that would compensate union members for the value of pay raises they haven\u2019t received since February, when other county employee groups got raises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Results of the union vote won\u2019t be available until later in the weekend. If the union approves the contract, it will be voted on by commissioners at their meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after the prospect of an agreement appeared to be dead, Do\u00f1a Ana County\u2019s jail and blue-collar workers are voting today on whether to accept a tentative bargaining agreement. The union and county representatives came close to an agreement in August, but a deal seemed to fall apart when the sides failed to reach an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}