Correctional Pension in Danger!

Fellow Detention Deputies and C.O.'s. As I reported in a previous post Teamsters Local 320 is making it a priority to add NON-ESSENTIALS to our pension.

Here's the link to their bill: http://www.scribd.com/doc/181422645/Report-to-Pension-Commission

If HF No. 884 and Senate No. 998 are passed it will add 1,973 non-essentials to our pension.

Consider: The correctional pension was passed because we have the highest injury rate of ANY public safety job class. Higher injury rates then police and fire. Our pension required 95% inmate contact for a job class to be eligible. If weakened to allow non-essentials with virtually non-existent inmate contact and non-existent assaults from inmates we will be in danger of being dumped back into the coordinated plan.

Consider: Probation officers make up to $90,000 a year. This means their payout from OUR pension will be greater than the C.O.'s it was created for.

Consider: With the higher required payouts to non-essential probation officers OUR pension contribution could increase about 2%. This would mean a 2% pay-cut in take home pay, with NO increase in our benefit.

Consider: If passed we may never get an increase in our pension benefit because higher payouts will be going to higher paid non-essentials.

It is important to stop this in it's tracks.

CONTACT YOUR STATE REPS NOW. FIND THEM HERE AND CONTACT THEM:

 Who Represents me?

Don't let corrections traitor Brian Aldes and Teamsters Local 320 ruin our pension.

Corrections traitor Brian Aldes, lower right