Since Berry took office, he and Perry have not backed down from their efforts to remove all city paid compensation to city employees who get paid to work for their unions. This is an ideological argument that neo-conservatives can't seem to get over. Nevermind the fact that at most we're talking about a handful of employees and that in reality they bring a positive savings that out weighs their earnings. But by the city's actions of not negotiation on this issue, they have brought an impasse to union contracts with the police, fire, and AFSCME covered city employees. And from those impasse's there are lawsuits and decreased productivity. Not bright executive management style at all if you ask us. Out of protest of a few employees, Berry/Perry have harmed thousands of other employees.
While Berry/Perry's lead contract negotiator has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in his efforts to make sure all the main unions do not get new contracts, the affected employees have also seen their pay go down while their expenses go up. Now with the AFSCME president bringing attention to this matter, Yermal goes on the offensive in actually blames her for the impasse.
Oddly Yermal makes the statement that had the unions folded on this issue all employees would have seen a 1% raise each year for each of the last three years. Funny, affected city employees have seen a reduction in income and had this increase occurred it would have been a pay restoration and not a raise. Silly Yermal.
Yermal then closes the memo by saying, after his lies, that he hopes the "memo clears up and confusion and misunderstanding regarding the City's position." Right, because only in the land of Berry/Perry is it called leadership where you punish the vast majority of your employees while you give your impulse control impaired CAO a $33,000/year raise.
We at the Eye have to state the obvious, Yermal sounds way too upset for a guy that according to the city's transgression, oops we me transparency, site makes $45.94/hour.
But then again, since Yermal only gave $500 to Berry's campaign (reported on August 20th), unlike the $2500 Perry gave Berry, I guess we shouldn't be surprised he's been tasked to push back against the city's workers.
Given how APOA Vice President Willoughby can't support APD interim chief Allen Banks enough praise (even though Banks is even more anti-union than Schultz) we don't expect much from the city's finest to fight for their wages. AFD shows promise but the cards are still out.
Who knows, maybe it will be the clerical workers, the solid waster drivers, or perhaps those fiesty librarians that finally pull the plug on Berry/Perry & Company's war on their employees. We do know that they just got a huge ally with the election of Diane Gibson to city council.....we see.....
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Isn't it against city policy and merit ordinance to openly discuss negotiations until an agreement is reached and signed?
Did the HR Director violate this over 6000 times to city employees?
AFD has been the only ones to not crack. AFD will bring them down.
McCleskey is a tink little KUNT!
If it had been only the clerical union I might have said try harder union. But it is almost all unions. That smells of union busting. Perhaps, all the unions need to come together for some brain storming instead of each union for themselves. Just a thought .
Great post Eye!AFD isn't the only one that didn't crack. Deb Rainaldi stood her ground a few years ago when Berry and his personal ball buster..oops I mean union buster tried to give her clericals a jacked-up contract to sign She said NO and took a lot of heat for it,including from myself (Xena). She sat me down and 'splained the reality of it. Yeah, we gave up 1%…but the cost would of been much greater.in the future.The Dog and Pony show(Perry& Berry) are purposely letting Yermil hang himself on this one. HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BUT HE OPENED THE DOOR FOR DEB TO PUT HER OPINION ON THE RECORD. Stupid Yermil...yer being played...derp!
I read that memo too. It seems like what the City is trying to do is justify their efforts of trying to crush the Unions by eleminating Union time. And as far as their 1% raise, what would Perry have said to a 1% raise? Perhaps he would have found it insulting. Well so do we.
Here is a link to an article about Jay McCleskey.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-man-who-discovered-susana-martinez-could-also-be-her-downfall-20131121
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-man-who-discovered-susana-martinez-could-also-be-her-downfall-20131121
Now the pieces are starting to make sense:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32000890/Inside-the-New-Mexico-GOP
APD morle is apparently making a comeback under Banks rule. Maybe Berry should keep him on permanently?
6:38. Really? Maybe the union should take another poll like they did with Schultz...and include women that have had derogatory comments made to them about you know what. Why should APD morale be higher? Their contracts have not been negotiated, they haven't seen the raises they were promised. You buy into the lame stream local media spinning Banks as the Great White Hope? What exactly had he done for officers that would boost morale? Please share.
Of course keep Banks that's why credibility is not a issue with 34's. That's why we will always have lapel cameras. NOT
"APD morle is apparently making a comeback under Banks rule. Maybe Berry should keep him on permanently?"
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LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!
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OH BOY! THAT WAS A GOOD ONE!
I don't get it? Banks told me at a recent fund raiser for Christmas charities that moral was way up. He said that no officers have left the department since he got power and that speaks volumes.
The only thing that will improve moral on the department is if he disbands about 40% of the specialized units on the department & puts them on the streets to handle the stacking calls for service.
4:07..Banks"told you at a recent fund raiser for Christmas charities"..that statement right there is spin..and because of that, I doubt that the remainder of your statement is anywhere near the truth. You must think we're all stupid. Spin logic: Banks was at a Christmas charity event (halo over his head), and because he was at such an event, whatever statements he makes must be true. Ergo: Banks is a man of God who speaks only the truth. Get a life...we don't need no stinkin' Banks fan club!!
4:05,
Hahahahaha.......
Now I know you are lying because he couldn't have put those sentences together.
LMMFAO!!!!!
The only thing that will improve morale on the department is the immediate shitcanning of every turd on the 5th floor.
Officers retire at the end of the year for PERA purposes. No one leaving since Banks came in at the end of August means nothing. Tell me what you think when the 50 officers slated to retire December 31 do so. APD goes below 900 in staffing and the only idea Berry/Perry/Banks/Schultz can come up with is to make the entire state fix their problems by begging the legislature for a DROP Plan.
APD problems belong to APD. They don't belong to PERA. They don't belong to the legislature. They don't belong to anyone else.
Berry should put on his big boy pants and admit that doing away with the veteran incentive in 2009 was the wrong move. He should reinstate it right now. He should also admit that excluding applicants who don't have college or military has ruined us for recruiting (look at BCSO). Berry should remove the college requirement or at minimum allow applicants with no college or military but who are 25 years old to apply.
Berry / Schultz / Banks / Perry own the entire mess at APD. Hold them accountable and don't let them bankrupt PERA with a DROP plan. PERA Retirees this is for you. You want to see your COLA go down to ZERO! Let Schultz and Berry spin the DROP plan and get it approved and I can promise you the legislature will drop our COLA to pay for it. Speak up or lose your COLA. NO DROP PLAN!
With McCleskey's 'non-influence' with the gov., and of course with the 'DingleBerry,' no wonder the City employees can't get a fair deal in anything. But, karma is finally catching up. Who's next to be revealed behind the curtains of the self deluded grand Ozie's?
Could we compromise with half paid Half on their own time?
Oh wait, that calls for adults in the room.
Never fucking mind
There's a saying about beating moral into people. You people need to be beat into respecting the fifth floor! What the heck is wrong with you insubordinate lot?
Please put on your uniforms fasten your ties, adjust your hats, and take some calls and respect yourselves before your beaten raw.
Hahahaha.... And he was at a feed the children rally...
And a world peace demonstration... And he single handedly fixed the affordable health care system....
Then he invited all the homeless to his house for Thanksgiving feast. Yea... He is now getting nominated for the Nobel Award....
He's the best...
Because they say so...
And we all believe it...
How is it that YOU Perry can sit in a City Council Meeting, with your arrogance, staring straight ahead and NOT acknowledge an audience full of city employees disgruntled at your 22% raise while they can't make ends meet??? 1% Really???? THAT IS DISGUSTING BEHAVIOR ON YOUR PART!!! And YOU Mayor Berry walk around this Beautiful City of ours, having the audacity to buy your votes, not signing a CBA for THE EMPLOYEES THAT RUN THIS CITY, I wonder if/how you sleep at night??? Remember Mayor, Perry and so on down the line that GREED is one of the 7 deadly sins and KHARMA is a BITCH!!!
All I know is that I hope I'm not the unfortunate citizen who gets pulled over by one of you 34 on the job philanderers right after you've been caught with your dick in the cookie jar.
You can take your 'nature at play', that hasn't been shown the light of day by the supposed 'good officers' out there and shove it up your asses.
I can't wait for the defense attorneys in this town to make a line of questioning, as to your 'extracurricular' activities, to become standard fare in every fucking case where one of you jackasses are called upon to testify.
If you are not part of the solution, you ARE part of the problem!!!!
Perry is half in the bag I'd bet you at the City Council meetings. And Berry wears rose colored glasses and sugar coats everything is just fine here in the land of Oz.
The gap between the haves and have nots is growing in Albuquerque. We are way above the national average for unemployment, drug addiction, hungry children, a lousy school system. Why the fuck do "the Haves" even want to live here?????
Eeeeeeee....Orale!!!!!
Let's get them out...they don't belong here! Nasty Gringos Que No??
@11-26; 6:59pm:
A sniff test indicates the scent of lard soaked in Ripple and a 3rd grade command of the English language.
As long as employees pay into PERA while still employed and using DROP it actually helps PERA.
Good one 11/27 1:19. What a crock of shit. Ya....Banks is a saint! People watch, certain people are present at public events and they see and hear things....they are not politicians, they are unrecognizable...they attend events where police are present, but they don't know who is who..but these invisible people, have something in common..a lot of them come away from these events shaking their heads asking themselves or each other..."who is that guy with the big mouth hitting on all the young women??? It's embarrassing..." Now this could apply to most men...of a certain age, let's say, who fancy themselves to be irresistible! Must be the combination of a high salary and too much viagra. Then they wonder why women of a certain age prefer the company of a more genteel, softer spoken young man who isn't playing grab-ass with every 20-something, as I have witnessed these older, married officers do. Watch out! Everyone has a cell camera these days and the tales these pictures tell are "priceless"! Use 48 seniors!
4:28,
You have no clue what you are talking about. The DROP means they are drawing their pension out fo PERA during that time. This is a negative for PERA and needs to be stopped now. Let Albuquerque fix their own mess, Berry should grow some balls and not pass the buck to PERA.
I do not want to lose any more of my COLA. Schultz and Berry do not care about us, they only want someone else to fix their messes.
That memo is one sided. The memo states that the city offered a one percent raise this year and over the last three years for clerical. Funny how the memo doesn't mention that approximately four years ago the city took three percent away from clerical pay. If that one percent was accepted over the years than it would have just made up for the lose they had four years ago. Also, the memo states that one percent was offered, however it DOESN'T state that they want to take away longevity, seniority, etc. Clerical would have lost a LOT more if they accepted that lousy one percent. Deb knows what she's doing. She's not allowing the city to continue to screw over their own employees. Clerical employees work hard and they're shitted on and under appreciated every day. Deb, keep up the good fight! Clerical deserves more than what they're getting.
Hahaha!! 11/27 12:35 That should be category for K9..train to alert on lard soaked in Ripple.
And about that beat down we all need to respect the 5th floor.Respect is earned not beaten into ppl. Perhaps in your world you get beat if you don't show respect to a loved one or family member. But out here in the real world, we respect people who are not compulsive liars, who do not say "do as I say not as I do", who realize that the only reason they have jobs and raises and success is because of the ppl below them who do all the foot work, who are responsible for the constant movement of the gears, wheels if you will. And now thanks to the 5th and 11th floors, the wheels are falling off the bus. But the DOJ will be there to catch them when they fall! Cheers!
11/28 6:49....Absolutely!!
http://www.krqe.com/news/crime/city-settling-apd-lawsuit-for-60k
I hope Doyle and Woolever read this blog. Please use the above link and get your jobs back from the city. In your case the bad guy was armed, in a stolen car and resisting. Your prisoner didn't go to the hospital, yet you were fired.
Montgomery and Pitzer sent this guy to the hospital and didn't even explain why in their reports. Broke his jaw and cost the city $60,000. Yet they are still working. Montgomery cost the city $400,000 for his shooting and Pitzer now has 3 under his belt. Yet they are still employed.
I believe the Constitution guarantees equal treatment and Doyle and Woolever certainly have not received equal treatment from APD and the city.
Doyle and Woolever didnt shoot anyone so they are not worthy of working for APD according to Chief Schultz. He will protect you if you are a thug just like he is!!! What a joke....fire the innocent and keep the lying dirt bags that shoot first so they dont have to worry about going hands on, and then lie about it!!!
So I was told the city has been ordered to hire Levi's pal Perea back, he starts next week with full back pay and seniority. Seems to be a theme, maybe Woolever & Doyle are next to be hired back?
Since Schulz/Berry didn't see an need to fire Montgomery after he killed that kid on west central, Doyle and Woolever should be hired back immediatley!
And don't forget folks, this all belongs to Berry. He likes to hide from bad news but he owns all of this.
Perea is coming back? Thats good news! Now we just need Sigala, Roberto, Doyle & Woolever back & thats enough for a Westside or foothills squad.
I seriously doubt there is a cop in ABQ that knows anything about the Constitution, if they did they would realize they break the laws on a daily basis. Cops are so out of touch with reality they actually think that "traffic codes" are laws.
I have never seen so many bottom feeders in one place, Berry, Perry, Shultz, Banks, Willoughby, Levy and all their little lackeys. All with so much to hide.
1:15,
Apples to oranges as far as officers and circumstances go.
Did you all ever see the Human Centepede?
Jay Dan and TJ are the media centepede.
I heard the 5th floor had one too. It was Schultz Fiest and Banks. The other two dropped off and fucked up the experiment. Levy Wardlaw and Tourek are the city attorney Centipede. Perry Berry and the thong lady are the city hall centipede. Have fun shit eaters, because it't going to be a hoot when the US Attorney's office indicts you all for conspiracy to obstruct and perjury. All it took was a weak link and one just cracked. Enjoy the ride assholes.
Yeah. What these self-serving centipedes don't realize is that the lowly flies with one hundred eyes see stuff. And the worker bees that buzz around will tell the truth. After all some of them have contacted the DOJ and buzzed into their ears the buzz that the DOJ was waiting to hear.
Silly 11th floor!! You should have treated the lowly flies and worker bees with the respect they deserve. It will be your undoing. It will be your swan song!! The flies and bees will sing and their sweet song will take away your jobs. Oops, you don't really work,so we'll call it your positions!!!! Tee-hee....
Kudos to Deb for not backing down. This attempt to smear her name and discredit her hard work is disheartening but it will not work. Clerical employees watched officers give up their Longevity and other benefits for a big raise. Officers, with their longevity gone they did not get their promised raises. Deb refused to allow this same thing happen to Clerical. Clerical DID get offered a 1% raise, however in exchange they would have had to give up their longevity. Clerical employees would have had to give up 2%. Clerical employees would have been making 3% less total after their big raise. Remeber management, clerical employees are the ones typing your reports, ordering your supplies, making sure you get paid, making your phone calls and making life easier all around. To those clerical employees that think maybe they aren't getting the representation they deserve or their voice isn't being heard anywhere other than this blog, consider attending some union meetings. This "Open letter" is union busting at its finest. Berry/Perrys attempt to disenchant unions memebers so that the entire union can be busted. Their attempt at making things easier for them to take the benefits you now have away. Your union has fought for you, Deb has faught for you but unions are NOT one woman rodeos GET INVOLVED!
If you are a city employee and a !% raise isn't enough to "make ends meet," then maybe you should take your underappreciated talents into the private sector. Just a thought :)
I for one appreciate that our clerical union president turned down the PITTANCE admin was throwing at us like a freaking scrap of mouldy meat. On the other hand, I feel sorry for APD and the illegal sketchy shenanigans of their current union, and the union presidents and Reps. that they've had in the past. Something stinks there and an investigation is called for. Deb Rainaldi has the guts, has the stomach to look Administration in the eye, and say HELL NO!!! We don't want your stinking 1% raise. We are the lowest paid city employees. Some of us are the sole support of our families, and yet we drop our kids off at daycare, day in day out, we work weekend shifts, no problem, we are not the entitled, some of us rely on food banks to feed our families, but we won't back down. We want our longevity pay, we deserve it for our commitment, dedication, and pride. I am actually proud to be a City of Albuquerque employee- I just want to be respected and rewarded for a job well done, as a very hard worker, and enthusiastic positive representative of the City!
Had it been an actual raise that Clerical had been offered it would have been taken in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, had they taken that "raise", it would have resulted in another pay cut.
Well said!!! From the sheriff on down to apd!
To 1241....
You're an idiot. Clerical employees are NOT ungrateful. Clerical employees are grateful that they have a job, however they have not had a decent raise for 4-5 years. The offer has been one percent. THAT'S LESS THAN .25 CENTS. With medical insurance rates going up, the economy in the towlet and prices going up on gasoline, food, clothing, etc. it is VERY hard to "make ends meat". Also, how fair is it that clerical's duties have doubled if not tripled without an any compensation?
And by the way, clerical employees do have talents. As stated above, "clerical employees are the ones typing your reports, ordering your supplies, making sure you get paid, making your phone calls and making life easier all around". Basically, clerical does a lot of work if not all of the work for management, higher ups, etc.
Clerical has very good reason to complain and they ARE grateful that Deb Renaldi is standing up for their rights and livelyhood.
Checkmate loser!
Clerical is the backbone of admin and they get shit on while admin claims their work and makes the money. Just for the record, I am a cop and I know this.
8:03..thank you for your support and likewise we respect and support our brothers & sisters in blue...and in red for when they are the ones whose blood is shed...my respect for the badge is unconditional...for their lives, their families and their children...we as a community and as a viable city stand to lose everything if our front line first responders to shootings, gangs, drug crazed, drunk and violent offenders are not respected and supported by their chief and mayor. Berry take off your happy hippy sunglasses and see what a toilet your city has devolved into. You're not a college boy anymore and Albuquerque is the 505 'Burque occupied by 'Burquenos...You and Perry and Tourek and the rest of your out of touch suits that never leave city hall have absolutely no idea what goes on in this City...which is not yours, it is run by Cartels. You are sadly out of touch with these citizens and they are the majority unlike the white haired money bags who live in 4 hills and tanoan in their delusional'50s ranch homes where they still think Art Linkletter and Mitch Miller are the bees knees!! Sad really sad.
3:15 - you've got some issues, dude. Hope your job has some good mental health benefits to help you deal with your temper tantrum problems.
9:58 Do you want some cheese with that "whine?" "How is it fair . . ." illustrates my point. If the City is being so unfair and you are so talented, then get out there and find a job that properly appreciates you.
Checkmate? I think not.
Well To Do,
You are very funny. "You wouldn't say that shit while standing in front of me." Oh yes I would.
By the way, you have no career as an investigator or a detective. At all. Pretty much every assumption you are making about me is wrong. And you still don't have a single answer, after multiple attempts, for my straightforward point: if the city is so bad and they are so good, why arent't they making bank like you are claiming to.
You can huff and puff, but at the end of the day you are simply a blowhard. Go be a tough guy somewhere else; we're all stocked up with crazy here, thanks.
8:45,
Stop smoking that.
You are right, My career is not in the field of investigations or detectives. I didn't say it was. Can you read? You are even funnier. I am a very tough guy. I am so tough that if I shook your hand I would squash it into paste.
I am so badass, I live vicariously through myself. I can kill two stones with one bird. The sharks have dedicated a week to ME. I go to Spain to chase the bulls. Cars look both ways for ME.
My tree house has a fully furnished basement. I don't use potholders or oven mitts. My shadow has a shadow and the Pope kisses MY ring. Your point is how can the city be so bad and so good?!?! You truly are a moron. That point has been answered but you are obviously too stupid to read or put the thoughts together. Everyone else got it.
Who isn't making bank?
What is bank?
Talk like an educated adult please, not some hip hop rapper corner boy.
I don't huff and puff. My cardio is outstanding. You could see it any time you would like inside one of those big rings with the fences all around it. Thunderdome... I enter, you don't leave. You know what I mean?
....and I forgot to mention...
I am the most interesting man in the world!
Ya Dickhead!
When did the Tremulous Flatulater start posting as "anonymous"?
Jeffrey,
Is that you?
Did you pull your head out of Dan's buttocks and put down the pop tarts and choco milk?
Your head looks like a satellite dish with those ears.
Dah duh um uh...
You asshat. Is making up names all you can do?
I will bet you are afraid. You are embarrassing yourself.
It all sounds like the same person..every post like someone is talking to themselves.
Don't know who "Jeffry" is, but I'm not him. Don't know who "Dan" is either. Don't eat pop-tarts nor drink milk in any flavor. I do recognize bullshit when I read it and you are probably the Southwest Distributor.
Yeah ok. Sure thing moron.
Something even bigger than the investigation into APD is going to come down. The DOJ, Office of the Inspector General will be looking into Union/City Admins. Illegal activities as it pertains to Union misuse of pubic funds, threatening and harassing union members. Remember Perry standing on the corner yelling at peacefully protesting union members? SAVE THAT VIDEO AFSCME...it is evidence and may rise to the level of RICO violations if union dues were diverted to Perry, Berry , etc. To buy or bribe no contract or impasse on attempted negotiations.
6:35,
You sure do get really mad for not having a nerve struck.
Of course, you always could have that coffee with me at Satellite and end this madness. I am free all day Friday and Saturday. Well....,except for my pottery lessons. But, I can work around that. Tea and thundercookies sound yummy?
Well anyways, have a great day and think about it. It would be so much fun for me and it would mean the world. And don't be so passive aggressive. It's really Kunty.
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