The county commissioners on Wednesday rejected, by a 2-1 vote, a spring arbitration award that gives county corrections officers raises in 2010 and 2011. The arbitration panel gave the 185 corrections officers, who are represented by AFSCME Council 89, a 7 percent pay this year. The officers are contributing more toward their medical benefits. It awarded similar raises for 2010 and 2011. “The county is, in effect, electing to treat the award as advisory for the years 2010 and 2011. That is, to say, not binding on the county,” county solicitor Don Lefever said. “The most likely result is it will end up in the courts.”
7 % for each of three years ? Are they nuts ? Has anyone told these people there's a recession going on ? Of course they know, and the fact is that the unions don't give a crap. They just keep on greasing liberal democratic politicans and cashing in. Cashing in on endless payraises, health insurance to dream about, and union lawyers to protect the lazy and incompetent. Legalized extortion. Mob politics.
