In our first bargaining session on July 21 for the new union contract, our Bargaining Team met with the Employer and proposed: 

• Improvements to vacation and bereavement leave

• New holidays for Juneteenth and Christmas Eve

• Extending seniority protections for extended leaves

• Improvements to Longevity Pay

• Wage increases and wage scale adjustments that recognize the economic realities we all live under as County Employees 

While Management did make an initial proposal that was better than previous bargains and shared things in common with our proposals, we are far apart on the amounts, especially when it comes to wages. 

“While it was encouraging that we had similar ideas, the wage increases Management proposed were so far below our own, it was hard not to have hard feelings about it.”

—Tim Weissman