Last night, business and labor squared off on the CARR bill in one of the more entertaining bouts of the state hearing season. But there is a lot more to…
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MCEA, SEIU Local 500 and the Montgomery County Association of Administrative and Supervisory Personnel (MCAASP) have reached a tentative deal with the school system on contract savings. Here are the…
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By Eric Luedtke. For those of you on a time crunch, here’s the summary: Teachers are essential to student success. Teachers are probably losing most if not all of their…
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MoCo School Unions Agree to Reopen Contracts
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Below is the text of a press release from MCEA, SEIU Local 500 and the Montgomery County Association of Administrative and Supervisory Personnel (MCAASP), the three unions that represent employees…
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The Limits of Labor
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Ann Marimow is a good reporter and I respect her work. But in her Sunday Post article, “Union Influence Sways Montgomery Budget Talks,” I believe she overstates her case. Montgomery…
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Labor Between the Hammer and the Anvil
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As Montgomery County’s budget battle draws to a clamorous climax, a new bomb has been dropped.Yesterday, Council Member Trachtenberg sent the following letter calling for a 2 percent cost of…
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Challenge to the Unions, Part Two
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In Part One, we reported on County Council Member and Management and Fiscal Policy Chairwoman Duchy Trachtenberg’s letter to public employee union MCGEO offering a choice between layoffs and COLA…
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Last Pre-Election County D4 Round-Up
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By tomorrow night, this race will be over. Here’s the state of play one day out.On press, coverage has picked up in the last week. The Post has written its…
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Are MoCo Public Employees Overpaid?
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Yesterday, the Post reported on growing disagreements between Montgomery County leaders over compensation paid to county employees. Labor costs account for 80% of the county’s $4.3 billion budget and the…
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County Council District 4 Round-Up
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OK everybody, with less than two weeks to go, here’s the latest.1. The Prince George’s County Council District 5 special election has MoCo campaign operatives’ tongues wagging. In that seven-candidate…