Friday, July 22, 2011

Milwaukee County workers could pay more for benefits

The finance committee endorsed a 20% reduction in future pension credit for the 3,500 members of the county's largest union, District Council 48 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. New hires also would have to work to age 64 instead of 60. The changes had already been made for other county workers and can now be unilaterally imposed on the AFSCME workers under collective bargaining restrictions approved by the state. The changes also apply to the much smaller Building and Trades union members.

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