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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Employee pay going up in new MRDD union contracts
Butler County commissioners today blessed a new union contract between Butler County Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and one of the agency’s unions that amount to a 2 percent pay increase for some agency staffers.
Another contract for a larger union at the agency is expected to look about the same when put forward in coming weeks. Altogether, the agency is projecting the cost of paying its employees will go up roughly $200,000 next year.
But the agency is keeping its total $29.1 million budget roughly the same next year, due to expense reductions elsewhere.
Other agencies are also getting union increases as the county looks to cut its budget
Also today, commissioners approved a 3 percent across the board pay increase for Butler County Job and Family Services, as required by that agency’s union contract.
Commissioners have said they are not giving pay raises to any non-union positions, due to a projected revenue shortfall next year.
See a previous story here that I did on unions and their effect on employee pay in Butler County government.
More recently, the sheriff’s office budget is going up $1.9 million this year because of union contracts, though they’re trying to cut spending across the county. In the post about that, I pose this question:
How can government offices cut their budgets as revenues drop when they say their hands are tied by union contracts?
I ask that again now.
Here is the names, positions and salaries of every employee in Butler County MRDD:
(Click on the top right corner to enlarge)
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