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Public access to City of Lansing labor contracts October 30, 2019
On September 22, I emailed a FOIA request to the Lansing city attorney asking for the latest ratified collective bargaining agreements for all City of Lansing unions. On October 2, Mary Bowen of the city attorney's office sent me an extension letter saying a written response would be issued on or before October 14. That didn't happen, so on October 24, I sent an email to the city attorney saying
I received them later that day.
You have to wonder what took them so long. Labor contracts are some of the most important documents in city government. The bulk of city expenditures is based on wage and benefit provisions in these contracts. Personnel policy is affected. They often supersede the city charter. I would expect that the city attorney's office goes over them carefully before they go before the city council to be ratified, so they shouldn't have been hard for the city attorney's office - which handles all FOIA requests - to find.
Every one of these "latest ratified collective bargaining agreements" has expired. I guess that means the new contracts are still being negotiated. I've posted links to them here on this website along with links to older contracts I've collected over the years. There are also links to salary and benefit agreements for non-union groups, but I have not yet requested the latest of those.
If they were on the city's website, I wouldn't have to bother.
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