HOPE Raise

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HOPE Raise

via McGovern-Stella Link Neighborhood Library by Patrick Atkins on 4/8/13

From an e-mail we received today:
HOPE works tirelessly for the civilian portion of the municipal workforce it represents. Due to the union's good-faith negotiations, civilian city employees will receive a 3% across-the-board pay increase, effective July 1, 2013. This raise would have been only 2% had it not been for a clause in the contract HOPE negotiated two years ago that allowed for an extra 1% if our economy achieved a specific performance threshold. HOPE was willing to work with the administration to tie employee pay to our improving economy. As a result, civilian employees will see an extra 3% added to their paychecks this summer.