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Police and Fire Contracts Come With Plea to Revisit Pay Raises
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"There's a lot of uncertainty about what happens now," said Vince Canales, president of the FOP.
John Erzen, a spokesman for Johnson, said the county executive hopes that union leaders will agree to negotiate smaller raises.
"Our goal here is to work with all of the labor associations to find an agreement," Erzen said. "If they are not willing to sit down, the executive will have to confer with the County Council, and we may have to have more dramatic steps."
Public safety employees expressed anger that the county is talking about reduced raises when the budget was approved only at the end of May and county leaders celebrated a boost in the bond rating last month.
"I think this is something that was held in abeyance for a long time until they got that bond rating," Bartholomew said.
Dean, who briefed rating agencies with Johnson in May, said the New York bond raters were fully apprised that county revenue was falling.
"They felt we have been good stewards of the budget," he said. "The reason we got the bond rating was that we were forthright with the people on Wall Street."
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