Updated: Selectmen Send Home Rule Petition Question to Town Meeting
Opponents said the proposal sends the wrong message to employees and prospective employees; supporters said there's no harm in discussing a critical issue.
Selectmen voted 3-2 Wednesday to place a home rule petition question on the May 6, Town Meeting warrant. The question — if approved by a majority of the 300-plus Town Meeting members — would ask lawmakers to pass legislation giving Swampscott the option to offer alternative retirement and health insurance benefits for new town employees in collective bargaining with unions. Opponents in the audience in the high school auditorium Wednesday, including police, firefighters and teachers, said a Town Meeting debate hurts Swampscott, singling it out as a town interested in offering less to its future employees than other towns and cities in the commonwealth. This perception will negatively influence the pool of applicants and, in turn, could …
Dones1968
8:48 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013
This is an interesting article on the subject or public sector vs private sector pay. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/01/chart-day-federal-government-pay-vs-private-sector-pay more ›