Story published today delves into the Costa Mesa outsourcing
controversy — calls the situation “the Wisconsin labor battle in
miniature.”
Last Wednesday local GOP Chairman Scott Baugh held up Costa
Mesa’s plan to drastically cut its workforce as an example for
others to follow. A city employee’s suicide the following day has
made that a far more complicated proposal.
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Mayor Gary Monahan said a picture of him celebrating St.
Patrick’s Day at his bar hours after Huy Pham’s suicide at City
Hall was the result of a setup by a union official. Others who
observed Monahan that day say that is not the case.
Costa Mesa city maintenance worker Huy Pham, who committed
suicide at City Hall Thursday, is recalled by co-workers as
talented and caring.
While done in the name of good business, Costa Mesa’s mass
layoff notification violated basic principals that the corporate
world has developed for handling layoffs, experts say.
Maintenance worker jumped to his death from roof of the City
Hall building Thursday, the day he and more than 200 other city
employees were issued layoff notices.
Man on layoff list jumps from roof of building.
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