Protestors upset
over elimination of three positions
TOWN OF NEWBURGH – More than two dozen members of the Town of Newburgh CSEA picketed outside Town Hall Monday evening as the town board was about to hold a special session about the proposed 2017 budget.
The spending plan includes the elimination of three filled laborer positions. The union maintains the three men were targeted when they were demoted from motor equipment operators.
Local CSEA President William Healey said the union has tried to talk to town officials, but they want to follow formal procedures.
“They wish to go through our grievance procedure, which will go through arbitration,” he said. “They wish to do the arbitration thing and see how that comes out.”
Healey said it could take months before a decision could be made in arbitration, which would leave the three workers unemployed until then.
