Commissioners approve new contract for jail guards
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The Washington County Commissioners last week voted 3-0 to approve a three-year contract with corrections officers at the jail, which stretches back to Jan. 1, 2018.
The contract calls for a 2.5 percent raise in wages retroactive for 2018. During the second year of the contract, they will receive a 2.75 percent increase and a 3 percent raise in 2020.
Employees were already paying for 10 percent of the cost of health insurance, which was built into the first year of the contract.
They will bear 11.5 percent of the health care insurance cost this year and 12.5 percent in next year.
Washington County jail guards voted a year ago to change their bargaining unit’s affiliation from Teamsters Union Local 205, White Oak, to the National Correctional Employees Union, based in Springfield, Mass., which has designated them Local 132.
At the time, 64 full-time and part-time employees were eligible to vote on the switch.
By law, corrections officers in Pennsylvania are forbidden to strike.
Human Resources Acting Director Andrea Johnson said Thursday that sheriff’s deputies are awaiting word on a contract that went to arbitration, and the contract with assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders that expired at the end of 2018 has yet to be finalized.