Corrections officers have sought a $2-an-hour raise since a 2008 study showed that they are paid less than their counterparts around the region. In 2010, an arbitrator ruled that the county must provide a $2-an-hour raise once its financial position gave it the ability to pay. The county would spend about $800,000 to provide that raise in the first year, County Administrator Steve Chapman said.
Corrections officers and the county were at loggerheads last summer over the issue of whether the county had hit the financial benchmarks that would trigger the raise. Officers demonstrated outside their workplace in July, but county officials steadfast maintained that the county could not afford the raise.
An arbitrator last month effectively sided with the county’s decision not to award the raise at this time
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