1. Silver Shield Association Inc. (SSA)
represents police officers, technicians,
sergeants and lieutenants.
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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME),
Council 4, Local 1303-222, AFL-CIO represents school health nurses in the town’s
public school system and public health nurses in the town’s Health Department.
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Greenwich Municipal Employees
Association Inc. (GMEA) repre-
sents town and Board of Education
employees in clerical and admin-
istrative classifications.
Laborer’s International
Union of North America
(LIUNA), Local 136, AFL-CIO
represents town and Board
of Education employees in
professional and supervisory
classifications.
Board of Education
Greenwich Teachers
Association
Greenwich Organization
of School Administrators
LIUNA Local 136
Para-Professionals
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Greenwich’s unions
Municipal employees are represented by one of the following collective bargaining units:
Local 456 International
Brotherhood of Team-
sters (IBT) represents town
and Board of Education
employees in blue collar,
trades and foreman clas-
sifications and certain
nursing classifications at
the town’s nursing home,
the Nathaniel Witherell.
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Local 1042
International
Association of
Firefighters (IAFF),
AFL-CIO repre-
sents all uniformed
professional fire-
fighters and officers
except the chief and
assistant chief.
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GHS suffers defeat
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Long-term
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woes solved? A5
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Soap opera
star stops in
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Battle over
benefits
You know the stereotype. Fat-cat public workers enjoy lavish benefits that most private-sector workers
can only dream of. But do the perks of Greenwich government employment really live up to that image?
At a time when unions across the country are being pressured into givebacks to fix broken budgets, we
reveal what it costs town taxpayers to fund municipal employee benefits packages.
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To see charts
showing
the top
30 munic-
ipal and
education
pensioners in
Greenwich,
as well as
accumulated
pay that town
retirees rake
in, turn to
Pages A6-7.
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By Julie Ruth
Staff Writer
Members of the Democratic Town
Committee had their squabbles dur-
ing last week’s meeting to endorse
candidates for the local elections in
November, but most committee mem-
bers agreed: they had three excellent
candidates competing for the party’s
two open slots on the school board.
“It was a can’t-lose proposition,”
committee member Peter Berg said.
“The people of Greenwich need to
know we were picking two out of
three super candidates, probably more
quality than they’re going to see from
the other party.”
In a shakeup, Adriana Ospina, a
party newcomer but a force in the
PTA for more than 10 years, seized
the second and final spot on the par-
ty’s ticket for the Board of Education.
Longtime public education advocates
and party activists Jennifer Dayton
and Sean Goldrick had won the en-
dorsement of the Democratic party’s
executive committee two weeks earli-
er, but Ospina went on to actively seek
the endorsement of the town commit-
tee membership.
When the ballots were counted
Dems seek change with new blood on BOE
See BOE on A8
By Neil Vigdor
Staff Writer
When Skip Azud accepted
a retirement package two
years ago from the town,
for which he worked for 34
years as high-
way opera-
tions manag-
er, he cashed
in his unused
sick days for a
lump sum of
$29,807.
By Azud’s
own esti-
mates, he ac-
crued well
over 180 sick
days and got
paid for half.
The town
then compen-
sated Azud an additional
$14,903 for his unused va-
cation days.
Don’t resent him for it,
said Azud, 59, who also
draws a monthly pension
and health care allowance
See Battle on A6
Jennifer DaytonFrank Farricker