Alderman Stephen Gregali says Richard Frank acted in bad faith when he negotiated a three-year deal with the city's 4300 civil service employees.

Mayor Francis Slay and the Civil Service Commission rejected that contract, saying it was too expensive.

Slay and the commission proposed a one-year deal, which the committee rejected Tuesday.

Frank repeatedly told the aldermen he didn't know how much money he had to work with when he negotiated the three-year deal - an argument Gregali doesn't buy.

He wants the mayor's office to discipline or fire Frank.

"I don't believe that what he negotiated was a fair deal to the city, or to the employees," Gregali said.

Spokesmen for Mayor Slay did not return phone calls seeking comment.

The rejected pay plan would have given employees a 2.5 percent raise and a $300 bonus. The vote Tuesday means no raises, which union representatives like Christopher Molitor are okay with.

"We negotiated a pay raise in good faith, and that's a pay raise that should for forward," said Molitor, the president of the city's firefighters union. "We're trying to get the best deal for our employees." © Copyright 2009, St. Louis Public Radio