LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division won’t be happening strike after a deliberate enhance in Nevada’s retirement contribution fee, union management advised 8 Information Now.
Final November, the board overseeing the state-run Public Workers’ Retirement System (PERS) program voted to extend the quantity of pay that state workers, in addition to police and fireplace division workers, should contribute.
The board elevated the speed for police and fireplace members to 58.75% from 50%. Metro police employs greater than 4,000 sworn officers.
In June, the Las Vegas Police Protecting Affiliation (LVPPA) union management emailed members explaining that starting with the second examine in July, pay would lower by 4.375 %.
“We are expected to receive a 2.6% [cost-of-living increase] on July 1,” the email the 8 News Now Investigators obtained read. “The net reduction in your rate of pay will be 1.9%.”
That electronic mail included a ballot with 4 choices: to both start a strike, make the most of sick depart, report for responsibility however refuse to depart the briefing room, or do nothing.
On Thursday, July 3, someday earlier than the strike would have began, LVPPA President Steve Grammas confirmed to eight Information Now that Metro officers won’t be happening strike.
Nevada regulation states public workers, resembling officers, can’t strike towards their authorities employer, which Mayor Shelley Berkley cited when requested to deal with the potential of a strike throughout her press convention.
“Right now, they are in the middle of a contract that they knew about and signed,” the mayor mentioned. “We’re all paying our fair share.”
“If it was up to me, of course we’d be absorbing the difference. But the reality is that our PERS contribution went up $9 million. The city doesn’t have $9 million,” Berkley mentioned. “We cannot carve out the police.”
Mayor Berkley added that Metro police’s contract is up subsequent 12 months, and will be renegotiated.
