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By Jeremy M. Lazarus
A major share of City Hall’s 4,000 employees have selected their union bargaining agents who will take the lead in contract talks with the city on wages, benefits, health insurance, holiday pay, working conditions and other issues.
In results that were anticipated, city administrative and technical employees, whose more than 800 members include office staff and social workers, among others, chose the Service Employees International Union Local 512.
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“This is a long time coming,”
Otissa Williams, an employee for Richmond’s Department of Social Services who has pushed for union, stated in a release she issued after the vote. “Now, we actually have a voice in what we receive as far as compensation.”
Election results were made available on June 22.
Along with SEIU, the group that has long represented Fire Department employees, Local 995 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, also won the formal endorsement to be the bargaining agent
