Mcfarlanes hatchet man Stedman comments on court secrecy ruling

“Having the news media report on the sessions will be a first for us, and will provide the transparency we desire in negotiating a new contract that is fair to our employees, our riders and taxpayers,” said TriMet Executive Director of Labor Relations and Human Resources Randy Stedman. (Gawd it sickens me when I read the word 'transparency' in any of the Trimet press releases its such a phony notion.)

But there is one teeny tiny improvement:


The agency’s top issue for the next contract is to reduce the costs of one of the most generous health care benefits in the country. (This is debatable after the union lost the last arbitration and the long term goal is to strip most everything from Trimet union workers as we heard in testimony before the county audit board. But this is a a change in the language they have been using which was "the most generous benefits package in the United States, which of course was a downright lie. As always, when I see our executive class 'give back' I will support giving back from union employees. Until then the fight for justice for union employees goes on)