11/29/2012
By Doug Cunningham
Workers at Nissan’s Mississippi plant are trying to unionize with the UAW. Management is running an aggressive anti-union campaign and the workers say that denies the workers a fair and democratic union election
Click on the following for more details: Jesse's Package::Nissan's Mississippi workers seek union representation::Workers Independent News
This appears to be very similar to our situation in Boone County. See: http://www.boonecountywatchdog.blogspot.com/2012/11/budgeted-salaries-and-benefit-costs-for.html Boone County is also only supplying job positions and not the individual names.
“We conclude that the City violate Section 7.3(a) of the O[pen] M[eetings] A[ct] by failing to post the names of employees whose total compensation packages exceed $75,000 per year. Accordingly, we request that the City immediately revise the information posted on its website to include the names of those employees, and also provide Mr. Skinner with an electronic copy of the salary compensation for those employees.”
The City has complied with the Public Access Divisions’ request.
Click on the following to read all of the situation involving Cal Skinner and the CIty of Crystal Lake: McHenry County Blog | Crystal Lake Loses Precedent-Setting FOIA Ruling on Hidding High Salaried Employees’ Names
Corrections officers have sought a $2-an-hour raise since a 2008 study showed that they are paid less than their counterparts around the region. In 2010, an arbitrator ruled that the county must provide a $2-an-hour raise once its financial position gave it the ability to pay. The county would spend about $800,000 to provide that raise in the first year, County Administrator Steve Chapman said.
Corrections officers and the county were at loggerheads last summer over the issue of whether the county had hit the financial benchmarks that would trigger the raise. Officers demonstrated outside their workplace in July, but county officials steadfast maintained that the county could not afford the raise.
An arbitrator last month effectively sided with the county’s decision not to award the raise at this time
Click on the following for more details: Winnebago County jail officers battle for raise - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
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The following is Page 1 taken from: http://www.lakecountyil.gov/HR/Documents/Employee%20Compensation.pdf
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