Deputies Overwhelmingly OK Pact With County, Union Reports
The union representing some 7,000 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies has approved a three-year labor contract that will boost salaries 5% starting Nov. 30, according to the union’s hotline.
More than 85% of the law officers represented by the Assn. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs voted to ratify the contract last week, the union president said in a recorded message. Deputies will get another 4% pay raise in July 1998 and 3% more the next year, according to the hotline.
The raises--which are expected to be approved this month by the Board of Supervisors--are projected to cost the county about $20 million in the first year.
A tentative agreement was reached in late September after deputies staged sickouts
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