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Council staff, lawmakers far apart on contract issues

Union, lawmakers remain apart on contract issues

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 10/13/23

“The average Council staffer works over 600 hours of unpaid overtime a year. That is absolutely wrong,” Daniel Kroop, president of the Association of Legislative Employees, said at an informational picket outside of City Hall Thursday.

Dozens of staffers at the City Council gathered on Broadway to urge the Council to become a living-wage employer by negotiating a contract that includes a $75,000 minimum salary and  overtime pay. 

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