
{"id":14161,"date":"2010-11-24T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=14161"},"modified":"2010-11-24T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T15:10:21","slug":"fired-workers-ask-town-council-for-reinstatement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/11\/24\/fired-workers-ask-town-council-for-reinstatement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired workers ask town council for reinstatement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Hill  \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Two recently fired town sanitation workers and their supporters asked the Chapel Hill Town Council Monday night to rescind the decision to fire the men and immediately reinstate them.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Bigelow and Clyde Clark and have filed a grievance against the town and a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after being fired from their jobs last month.<\/p>\n<p>At Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s council meeting at Town Hall, local NAACP chapter president Michelle Laws said she believes the case is not an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We believe that Mr. Clark and Mr. Bigelow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case is evidence of a larger, more systemic issue of unjust treatment and retaliation toward our public workers that has been tolerated and allowed to go unsanctioned \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that has been tolerated for quite some time,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Clark, Bigelow and their supporters also questioned a report by Capital Associated Industries, a firm hired by the town to investigate complaints about the two, charging that the company has a history of being used to fight unions and organizing rights for public employees.<\/p>\n<p>Council member Sally Greene and Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt both reiterated their support of collective bargaining for public employees and called for a report on the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relationship with the company.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Al McSurely, who is representing Bigelow and Clark, said they are committed to a long fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve told my clients they should be prepared for the town to spend unlimited funds to make their point in the courts,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d McSurely said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our side doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have unlimited funds. But we do have unlimited spirit, unlimited bodies and unlimited commitment. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go to the Supreme Court with it. I look forward to it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Staff Reports<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recently fired town sanitation workers and their supporters asked the Chapel Hill Town Council Monday night to rescind the decision to fire the men and immediately reinstate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14245,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161\/revisions\/14245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}