2015-01-14 13:36:25 -0500

Update from FW Ali (1/13/15): Seems like folks were not outsourced. The city council was filled with courageous worker stories including fellow worker Jorge Mejia's In which he described being an "as needed" employee since 1985. The city council voted and approved to (1) create a new job category for the "as needed" beach maintenance workers (2) make the beach workers take a test (possibly a performance test) even tho all of them have taken and passed civil service exams already (3) open up the application process for the new job category up for one day filing to all new applicants, and (4) let go of the beach workers who fail the test but train them for other positions. It doesn't sit well with some of us- the beach workers want all their coworkers to become permanent - not top scorers on a test. Mild victory but still a victory.