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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It’s not often they all agree, but when it comes to changing how city workers are disciplined, paid, and promoted, many city leaders say they do.

Mayor A C Wharton, city council members, and the firefighters’ union expressed their support for a City of Memphis charter amendment dealing with the Civil Service Commission.

The Memphis Police Association, however, isn’t buying into the proposed changes.

The proposed charter amendment would give the government the formal right to consider job performance when determining promotions and pay for city workers.

But Mike Williams with the police association said the courts already threw out the evaluation system years ago. ”

The police department is different from corporate America,” he said. “You’ve got too much nepotism, too many relatives, too many cliquish ways.”

That’s why Williams wasn’t joining in singing Kumbaya with other city leaders Monday over the proposed changes to the Civil Service Commission.

Tuesday, voters will get to decide, but Councilman Kemp Conrad said Williams’ lack of support is political.

“Mike Williams wants to be mayor,” he said. “He’s using this to advance himself, not the people he purports to represent. It’s as clear as that.”

Williams countered, “My members are telling me no way, no how; at no time do they want this to actually go into effect. That’s the membership, not Mike Williams.”

If passed, the amendment will cut down on the time it takes to process appeals made by fired or suspended city workers.

Thomas Malone with the Memphis Fire Fighters Association said, “When someone gets what I call the death penalty of labor, which is a termination, and it takes three years to get due process, something’s wrong with the system.”

The Civil Service Commission would also double in size from seven members to 14. Of those 14, at least half would have to work in or retired from the legal system.