Trinity Units Approve Contract Extensions

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Tuesday, August 5, 2009

All five Trinity County represented units, the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association Unit, the Miscellaneous Peace Officers Unit, the Management/Confidential Unit, the General Unit and the Skilled Trades Unit, have signed three-year extensions to their previous MOU’s that expired last December 31, 2008.

The extensions leave wages status quo for 2009, and then provide for a 2% COLA January 2010 and 2% COLA January 2011.  The Union agreed that employees should “vest” with service time before receiving a County copntribution for retiree medical benefits and established a vesting schedule for future hires of 5 years service to receive 25% off the County contribution, 10 years receives 50%, 15 years receives 75% and 20 years receives 100%.  The County contribution toward retiree medical premiums is equivalent to the County contribution for active employees, currently about $500 per month as it is linked to the employee only rate of PERS Choice.

Peace Officers also received a $200 annual increase in uniform allowance and Skilled Trades employees received an increase in their annual shirt allotment.