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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>One problem with many of these debates is
that incorrect information is used and sometimes later becomes the reason for
an action or inaction. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place>
is a right to work state and so a statement such as “</span></font>The
trouble with the SEIU is that you have to join to be a police officer in the
future if we adopt this program.” <font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>is incorrect.<br>
<br>
John<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Donovan Arnold<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:59
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> nickgier@adelphia.net;
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>'s Police Need Your
Support</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Like most people, I am happy with the job our police force is doing.
Unions are great for the people that like them. The trouble with the SEIU is
that you have to join to be a police officer in the future if we adopt this
program. The SEIU engages in political activism that many people may disagree
with. In other words, members fees go to things like supporting political
candidates and political positions that members my not agree with.<br>
<br>
I would suggest that we just pay our police officers similar salaries as the
SEIU members get. I don't want the city to only be able to have officers that
are members of the SEIU. We should be able to pick officers outside
that organization based on merit, skills, and what is needed for our
city.<br>
<br>
But I do agree with Nick Gier that we should talk about it. <br>
<br>
Take Care,<br>
<br>
_DJA <br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>nickgier@adelphia.net</span></i></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Greetings:<br>
<br>
The <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> police force from sargents down have
voted unanimously to be represented by the Service Employees International
Union, the most progressive and fastest growing union in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> <br>
<br>
There will be an open administrative meeting of the City Council at 4:30
tomorrow in the Council Chambers. I urge interested Visionaries to go and
support your police force with your voice and/or presence.<br>
<br>
The staff and some members of the City Council are still resisting
representative democracy in the workplace. One of their concerns is that the
union is too expensive for them. That's rather presumptuous of someone to be
telling someone else how he/she should budget his/her own money. Perhaps our
good officers have reasoned (correctly I believe) the cost of union dues will
come back to them in a professional wage and job security, but most of all
their very dignity as city workers. Just across the border unionized <st1:place
w:st="on">Pullman</st1:place> police make $9 more per hour.<br>
<br>
If the UI had gone to a salary scale based on the federal GS-system back in
1976 and if we had received the same wages that federal employees got during
that time, I would have retired at $50,000 more per year. I would have paid
much more in taxes, I would have given much more to charity, and I would have
spent much more in the local economy. <br>
<br>
I've written more on this issue at
http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/police.htm.<br>
<br>
Nick Gier, President, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State>
Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO<br>
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