The city of Seattle last month agreed to give nearly 300 city workers retroactive raises to settle an unfair labor practice complaint from its largest union, PROTEC17.
The settlement, however, has stirred debate in City Hall over whether proper procedures were followed or whether the issue should have been addressed at the bargaining table. Mayor Katie Wilson and the City Council learned about the settlement this week.
The union and the city have come up with different estimates of the total value of the raises, but they are likely to fall somewhere between $3 million and $5 million. At a time when the city is crunched for dollars, it’s a notable figure…