Public Employee Press
Civil Service Committee
members praise Lillian Roberts at October meeting DC
37 Civil Service Committee Chair John Townsend brought DC 37 Executive Director
Lillian Roberts to the groups October meeting to honor her before the entire
committee as the one union leader who has devoted decades toward defending
the principles of the merit system.
He also praised her current thrust
toward improving the citys implementation of the one-in-three rule to protect
the rights of union members to be judged impartially in the promotion process.
Roberts
thanked the committee for its strong support of her efforts to protect the
civil service system as a path into the middle class for those who were once excluded,
and commended the work of Townsend as chair.
Townsend also thanked Associate
Research and Negotiations Director Evelyn Seinfeld and Senior Assistant General
Counsel Robin Roach for their longstanding assistance to the committee. |