Originally posted by 7th District
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He said the negatives is they make around $4.00 less an hour than a top paid trooper. I think COs top out around $55,000. There is hardly any overtime. Im not a overtime hound, but the few hours for court here and there along with the holiday pay does add up. No shift diff. New COs pay around 4% of their pay into a 401k type retirement, and pay into health care.
Start adding the little things up, and it is a chunk of money.
With no binding arbitration, they get stuck with whatever the state wants to give them, and were subject to furloughs. He said they are trying to form their own union similar to the troopers assocation, but is a difficult task. He said they are having a very difficult time getting the candidates they used to.
Here is good information from their association web sight:
http://mcoa-online.net/node/33
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