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City Council to Consider Contract With AFSCME Monday Night
More City of Galesburg employees are getting something some in the private sector might be hoping for: pay raises.

The Galesburg City Council Monday night will consider a new three-year contract with workers represented by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.

City documents say the AFSCME workers will get three-and-a-quarter percent pay raises each year, retroactive to January first of 2009.

And, like contracts with the police and firefighter unions aldermen already have approved in the last number of months, AFSCME employees will also have to contribute to their health insurance coverage for the first time, and to a health savings plan they'll have when they retire.

The city, according to documents sent to aldermen, did not budge on their reported insistence that hours could be cut to save money, thereby not guaranteeing a work week.

This is the last contract negotiation the city had to complete, and it comes four-months after union members picketed City Hall to state their case.

The Galesburg City Council convenes at 6:30pm Monday inside council chambers at City Hall.
06 07 10 by Newsroom
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