Sheriff's Workers Get 20% Raise Over 8 Years

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A state arbitrator has awarded the Passaic County Sheriff's Office employees a nearly 20 percent raise over eight years in a ruling that found middle ground after four years of contract wrangling.

The decision, handed down Monday, was a described as fair by both county and union officials, signaling an end to a tug of war over salaries and benefits for 535 officers that spanned a fiscal crisis and times of surplus. The department has been without a contract since Jan. 1, 2007.

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Sheriff's Workers Get 20% Raise Over 8 Years

"It's a compromise," union President Phil Garcia, representing about 320 of the department's corrections officers, said of the settleme...

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