Two unions that represent nearly 4,500 San Jose city employees began voting Tuesday on whether to authorize a three-day strike over what the unions say are chronic understaffing issues and low pay for city workers.
The unions will be collecting ballots through Friday and plan to announce the results at an event in San Jose on Monday.
Workers represented by the unions have demanded a pay increase of 7% for the 2023-24 fiscal year, while the city responded with a counter-offer of a 5% raise. "I've told the city it's a real liability to have us so overworked and understaffed when we're taking life or death phone calls, handling fires on the radio, people needing to be pulled out of cars that they're trapped in and things like that," said Darmousseh."It gets really impactful in the 911 system when we're so understaffed, but it is affecting everyone throughout the city.
According to John Tucker, a representative for MEF-AFSCME Local 101, said that there were 1,000 open positions in city government across departments at one point this year. Jeffrey Buchanan, who is the director of policy at Working Partnerships USA, a think tank that works with the city unions to support their efforts, said that the mayor's claims that salary increases would lead to service cuts are false.
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