Posted on 06/11/2015 7:12:04 AM PDT by redreno
Clark County management has informed its largest union that employees won’t receive salary or benefit increases anytime soon, citing a new state law and contending that the contract between the county and Service Employees International Union Local 1107 has expired.
The freeze is expected to end in August or early September, when the county expects to have a new contract in place with the union. The county and union go to arbitration on July 1. Both sides had already planned to go to arbitration before a new state law was passed, after two years of fruitless negotiations for a new contract.
SEIU Local 1107 President Martin Bassick received the letter late Tuesday from county Human Resources Director Sandy Jeantete.
The county’s move is effective June 1, the same day Senate Bill 241 was signed into law by Gov. Brian Sandoval. The new collective bargaining law, brokered by state lawmakers with input from unions, came during the 2015 session as legislators rejected other wider-reaching labor-related bills.
The union was critical of the move Wednesday, the same day it sent a complaint to the state’s Employee-Management Relations Board for a finding.
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In other words, bent over and cave...
Let the shakedown begin.
,,,,, if they truly got what they deserve there would be pay cuts across the board .
UH OH. Get ready for chaos.
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