Posted on 01/20/2012 5:38:51 PM PST by redreno
A proposed two-year contract between Clark County and its unionized service employees appears to provide better benefits to future employees at the expense of raises for the union’s current 5,000 workers.
The pact with Service Employees International Union would represent a big change from an offer Clark County made to the union last year, which resulted in a stalemate between management and the union and then mediation. In that deal, the county offered merit raises of 1 percent in the first year and 3 percent in the second year, but only if the union gave up longevity pay for future employees.
Union negotiators didn’t like the idea of eliminating longevity pay and came back with this deal, which erases merit raises in the first two years but preserves longevity for new hires. Longevity pay for current employees will be frozen for one year, meaning workers will still receive longevity pay but the rate won’t increase for two years. It also eliminates cost-of-living adjustments for two years.
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Hmmmmm, I bet we have dimoKKKRATS negotiating with union dimoKKKRATS. Not a good scenario for the taxpayer.
greedy bass turds.
subsidizing mediocrity
How about ending the union contract completely? Fire every lazy ass union employee and newly hire 1 in 10 previous positions. Clark county would experience a 50 percent increase in productivity while reducing their budget by 95%.
Exactly the wrong thing to do.
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