Against the wishes of the school unions, the County Council has indicated its intent to freeze pay for all employees and spread furloughs across all agencies. Following is the council’s…
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School Unions Hit Back on Furloughs
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The three public school unions – MCEA, SEIU Local 500 and the Montgomery County Association of Administrative and Supervisory Personnel (MCAAP) – have written the County Council in opposition to…
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MCPS/Council Relationship Hits Bottom
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Budget pressures and rumors of litigation have caused a considerable rift between the County Council and the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system. It is possible that the relationship between…
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Montgomery County Considers Furloughs
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County Executive spokesman Patrick Lacefield has responded to MCGEO’s comparative study of management salaries, saying that it is “wholly riddled with factual errors.” We carry his response below.##### The purported…
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The Leggett administration recently proposed ten furlough days for all non-school and non-public safety employees, an idea bitterly resisted by MCGEO, which represents many of those employees. New data provided…
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MCGEO, Montgomery County’s employee union, held a rally last week to protest what they believe are unfair budget cuts targeting their members. One of their complaints is that county managers…
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MCGEO Lays Siege to Rockville
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They came from every corner of the county, from every race, age and ethnicity of humankind, united only by their shirts of radioactive yellow. That is the war color of…
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Montgomery County’s employee unions are trying to hold the line against more budget cuts tonight. But interestingly, they’re not doing it together.MCGEO, the giant county employees union, is holding a…
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County Employees at Risk
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The awful condition of the state budget has attracted a lot of attention in recent months. But the county budgets are not doing much better. And one constituency is going…