The release of a pay study recommending across-the-board pay raises for county employees has set the stage for a dispute between workers and county commissioners.
Pat Clark, a Teamsters union leader representing 240 county employees, said he’s set to start negotiations “soon” to secure the proposed raises, some of which top 22 percent.
However, commissioners are not ready to guarantee across-the-board raises.
County officials released the controversial pay study Tuesday prompting responses from employees as well as area residents.
The survey, awarded to Johnson and Associates of Rocklin, Calif., grew out of repeated union requests and a 32-page county employee survey administered in 1999. The study cost $88,500.
The last pay study was completed in 1989.
“Now, we need to talk about how the county corrects these inequities,” Clark said Wednesday. “There’s been a lot of change in 10 years.”
For the complete story see Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News, on sale in Clallam County.
