City workers group: "We're fighting for the very existence of civil service"
 

A small group of city employees, organized by the group Concerned Classified City Employees, gathered tonight at the Little Zion Baptist Church hoping to develop a strategy to fight an attempt to overhaul the Landrieu administration's plan to overhaul the city's civil service system.


The group, led by Randolph Scott, began meeting last year to protest a proposed change to a procedure for reemploying laid off employees ? called "bumping" ? and the appointment of Loyola University President Rev. Kevin Wildes to the Civil Service Commission, the policy making body for personnel rules.? [ Read more ]

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