Even if Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez comes to terms with all ten of the workers’ unions by giving them back some of the 
sacrifices they made five years ago — like holiday pay and furloughs — there are some employees who are left out of such negotiated agreements.
Across the county, 2,000 to 2,500 employees, depending on who you ask — including secretaries, receptionists, crossing guards, commission aides, communications staffers, the mayor’s staff and even police officers that rank major and above — do not fall under any union contract.
They are known as non-bargaining unit L. I know. Sounds like some unwanted group that is held in a steel underground world in one of those late night sci-fi movies, doesn’t it?
This not only means that Unit L workers do not get their holiday pay back, but also that many if not most of them are still paying the 5% into that fake “healthcare fund” that was returned to other employees’ paychecks starting way back in February.
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When Miami-Dade Commissioners meet Friday to approve three to five union agreements that have been ratified by the employees — including one reached this week by a mandate of the county’s biggest group of employees — they will also discuss giving something back to these non-union workers who do not get any of the returned benefits in the negotiated contracts.
Commission Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa has likened employees to children that the commission cannot favor one over the other and is expected to bring up the issue.
“Chairwoman Sosa would like to discuss if there is any way that this unit – which is roughly 2,000 employees who are under Mayor Gimenez’s purview – can have part or all of the five percent they have been contributing restored to their salaries,” said Gimenez spokesman Michael Hernandez, one of the non-bargaining unit employees.
“The Mayor is open to some kind of compensation which could be a tiered approach or a one-time payment, but he is hesitant to restore the full five percent to this non-bargaining unit until financial conditions improve,” Hernandez said.
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