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County employee voices pay and contract concerns in public comment as SEIU bargaining continues
Summary
At the Feb. 25 Board of Supervisors meeting, county employee and District 3 constituent Karen Bussard urged the board to return to SEIU bargaining over salary adjustments and Measure K funding, saying current offers leave represented employees behind and warning a strike could have long-term morale consequences.
Karen Bussard, a Kern County employee and resident of Supervisorial District 3, used the public-presentations portion of the Feb. 25 Board of Supervisors meeting to urge renewed bargaining with SEIU and to raise specific salary and cost-of-living concerns.
Bussard said employees represented by SEIU are uniquely affected by state-required cost-of-living adjustments and argued those COLAs should be permanent rather than…
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