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Back in 2004, the Austin Firefighters Association (IAFF Local 975), then led by future City Council Member Mike Martinez, won voter approval to exercise the collective bargaining rights available to police and fire unions under Texas law. For more than a decade thereafter, the AFA s political influence continued to grow, as a more progressive force than its police counterpart – but it still was often stymied in labor negotiations with City Hall. Three of the last six rounds of contract talks ended in impasse, with the city denying the union s request for arbitration; the current contract, approved in 2017, still leaves major long-term compensation and hiring issues unresolved. The AFA then gathered the 20,000 signatures needed for this charter amendment to allow either side – rather than requiring both sides – to agree to binding arbitration as allowed under state law. The ballot language drafted by city lawyers implies that
Fort Worth mayoral candidates for May 1 election
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Nueva normativa de tráfico: Granada levanta el pie del acelerador
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Reform Doesn’t Come Cheap
Austinites for Progressive Reform, the political action committee supporting
Propositions D through
H, announced it had raised $271,000 and spent $293,000 on the campaign s successful community engagement process and petition drive to get its proposals, including strong mayor (Prop F) and Democracy Dollars (Prop H) on the ballot, and on the electioneering since then. Its 30-day-out campaign finance report, filed April 1 to cover transactions between January 1 and March 22, shows $100,000 raised and $51,000 spent, with $92,000 in outstanding loans from 2020 and $69,600 cash on hand.
APR says its median contribution was around $100; many donors have been vocal supporters of APR or members of its leadership committee, such as
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