The city of Detroit, which has gutted the wages and benefits of its unionized workforce, has dished out bonuses of up to $1,300 to about 30 high-level police officials.
It’s the second time in less than two months that Bing’s administration handed out bonuses to nonunion employees. In December, they received longevity pay, which union workers do not get, we first reported.
While the bonuses won’t make the city go broke, they send a demoralizing message to rank-and-file employees, especially police officers who work the dangerous streets every night with pay cuts and reductions in pension and health care benefits.
“They’re just treating people any kind of way, and they’re supposed to like it,” Ed McNeil, a special assistant to the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 25, told the Free Press for a story. “It’s just crazy. There’s a lot of frustration for the workers.
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They are really ticked off. People have just had it.”
Bing’s administration said it approved the bonuses before reneging on the union contracts and imposing 10% pay cuts on rank-and-file employees.
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