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Voting NO on D is Fair and Just

Retain Binding Arbitration when there is not right to strike. Vote No on D.

Palo Alto's "leaders" pit "fiscal responsibility" against binding arbitration in their letter sent to the community to raise money to repeal binding arbitration, a clearly anti-union activity by Palo Altans.

Public safety employees have no right to strike; if these so-called leaders have their way, they will effectively ensure that public safety employees are unable to negotiate with the City fairly,  because they can't strike and they won't  have an independent party to help resolve the differences. 


This is just plain unfair.  Public safety employees work hard and are in very dangerous occupations. Binding arbitration came in in 1968. Why? Because the city wanted to ensure a fair process for its public safety employees.

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Out of curiousity: how many of those leaders who signed the letter asking for money to oppose public safety workers right to binding arbitration earn more than the public safety employee folks earn? 

And who has been the negotiator for the city over these years? Is it really the fault of the public employees that they have been good negotiators?

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