COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A special meeting for the Branch County Board of Commissioners will be held this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on what is the final day of business for the county in 2016.
The purpose of the meeting is to review union contract negotiations. The Commissioners approved a three year contract with the union representing employees in the District Court and Circuit Court/Friend of the Court offices last week.
The contract with the Service Employees International Union runs through the end of 2019.
Under terms of the agreement, union workers in the court offices would get 1.6 percent pay raises in 2017 and 2018 and a two percent wage increase in 2019.
