Child-support agency labor pact approved

WARREN -- Trumbull County commissioners have approved a one-year employment contract for roughly 60 members of Local 3808 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees working at the county child-support enforcement agency.
Wages will be frozen during the one-year contract, but the county will increase the amount it pays toward employee retirement plans by 8.5 percent.
The pact will expire in August 2005, about the same time contracts for two other bargaining units within the county will also expire, Human Resources Director James Keating said.
County officials proposed the short contract so negotiations on all three contracts take place at the same time.
Unionized CSEA workers earn between $12.74 and $15.28 an hour, Keating said.