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Bob and Jimmy,

Lets not forget the 25,553 unused sick days that the WFD has "IN THE BANK" that has a liability of approx $12.4 million.

That number grows each year. At the end of 2017 the number was 22,785 so it has grown by almost 3000 days. No where in the city budget is this liability taken into account. The only number considered is the "guestimate" (which is always wrong) of what will be expended annually in unused sick days. Even with men retiring, the bank of unused sick days grew over the last year. It simply is unsustainable.

Not withstanding the new scheme that has developed. Since May of 2018 when the unused sick pay scheme of reallocating the residual .41 days to the bank was stopped, in June a revolving sick out began. With 11 less men there were an additional 238 sick days or 19.38% increase of sick time. Maybe there is an Ebola virus in the WFD. No other trade has that much sick time. Not nurses, doctors, crab fishermen, iron workers, welders, ship builders, etc..

What is more disturbing as the documents show, is that the younger men that are not yet eligible for payment of unused sick time are the ones calling out sick and the call back is being covered by men that are eligible for the unused sick payments.

So on face value and by the documents, it clearly shows that this scheme has been contrived in an effort to keep the gravy train rolling for the guys that were benefiting from the unused sick pay scheme.