Monday, March 11, 2024

AFSCME, LELS and Teamsters Local 320 support raid on PERA Correctional Plan

Jim Mortenson of LELS, Bart Andersen of AFSCME Council 5 and Brian Aldes of Teamsters Local 320 have all written letters of support to add 911 Dispatchers to the PERA Correctional Plan.

Jim Mortenson
Source PERA-https://mnpera.org/wp-content/uploads/TAB-C-2024-Stakeholder-Agenda-911-Telecommunicators-Final.pdf

If allowed this would endanger the financial stability of the PERA Correctional Plan and endanger the 2.5% COLA that PERA Correctional Plan retirees enjoy. The Dispatchers currently get a 1.5% COLA.

Surprisingly there are 2 bills that would benefit PERA Correctional members.

HF4242 which would add a PERA Correctional Plan member to the PERA Board.

HF4081 which would increase the high 5 multiplier for PERA Correctional Plan members from 1.9%, where its been since 1999, to 2.2%. This number is the same as State Correctional Officer receive in the MSRS plan.

Brian Aldes

WHERE IS LELS, AFSCME AND TEAMSTERS SUPPORT OF THE BILLS BENEFITTING THEIR CORRECTIONAL MEMBERS?

THEY ARE AWARE OF THESE BILLS AND SIT ON THE SIDELINES WHILE COLLECTING THEIR DUES.

THERE ARE MORE CO'S IN THESE UNIONS THAN DISPATCHERS. MAYBE IT'S TIME CO's RETHINK THEIR UNION MEMBERSHIP




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