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SCHENECTADY
Body shop manager hired with union OK
BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter

    The city hired a manager for the controversial new body shop without ever posting the position or taking applications.
    Instead, Commissioner of General Services Carl Olsen and a city union jointly agreed on one candidate, who was immediately hired.
    It was an unusual process, but Olsen said he had to negotiate the hiring.
    If Olsen had selected a manager and the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 106, had opposed the decision, he said he could not have hired the candidate.
    “106 had to be in agreement,” he said. “I worked hand in hand with 106.”
    He said the union proposed that he hire Mike McNulty, who is unrelated to the politician.
    “106 supplied the individual. I was very satisfied with the individual. We have to agree,” he said.
    He said he agreed after seeing McNulty’s resume, which included 10 years at Nemeth’s Auto Repair and seven years at Salisbury Chevrolet.
    Workers at Nemeth said Mc-Nulty left their company “a while” ago. It was not clear why he left, but Olsen said he was impressed by McNulty’s experience.
    He said there were few union members with body shop management experience. The manager must be a union member because the job involves union work.
    “This is their bargaining unit work,” he said. “It’s their work. So it is necessary. The manager is a working manager — he’s going to be doing the work.”
    He expects the body shop to open by November, with the fi rst few months focused on removing rust and rebuilding steel panels on the city’s plows. By the beginning of next year, he said, the shop could begin working on county vehicles. If the county hires the city for that work, the body shop may bring in enough money to recoup McNulty’s $53,000 salary.
    Some residents were less than impressed by how McNulty was selected. ................>>>>................>>>>...........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01402&AppName=1

Sounds to me like the union selected the body shop manager.

What a dumb idea. Will the save as much money for the city as the $25 M garage did?

if it cost the private sector $4,000 to fix a fender it will cost the public sector $12,000.

CONSOLIDATION.....on the horizon.........very very close.......

It should have been privatized!!! Just another vote getter and screw the taxpayer!!! Yup, that's what I call working together for the good of the party!!