Countywide : Welfare Workers Ratify Pact’s 10% Pay Increase

County welfare workers who determine eligibility of recipients voted Tuesday night to ratify a contract that provides for a 10% pay increase in the next year and a half.

Eighty percent of the approximately 100 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees who were present approved the contract, according to federation president Ann Imparato. The union has 530 members.

The contract provides for a 3% increase effective Nov. 6 and 3 1/2% increases in July, 1988, and April, 1989. The contract expires in June, 1989.

There is also a $165 incentive payment and an adjustment in the medical plan that will allow for 90% coverage with a review before treatment. The medical plan now covers just 80%.

Three of the county’s eight employee groups had already approved contracts. They are sheriffs, marshals and engineers, all of whom received 15% increases over the next two years.