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ARTICLE 28 - ANNUAL LEAVE <br />The County Administrator is proposing various reductions in Article 28.01, Article 28.02, and <br />Article 28.03. The County Administrator's justification for proposing another two-tiered system <br />which places new hires with different benefits with respect to vacation leave, vacation carried <br />forward, and vacation pay outs, is that the "Teamsters accepted it." With all due respect to the <br />Teamsters, that is not a basis for these changes. <br />First, again, no employees in the County are scheduled for an average of 56 hours per week. <br />Firefighters are not like Teamsters and are not like other County employees. The work week of <br />firefighters is entirely different. Reductions in annual leave benefits are not justified. <br />Second, the comparisons with other departments in the local operating area establish that your <br />firefighters simply receive less time off than any department in the local operating area. <br />Local 2201 respectfully requests that a motion be made to adopt the Union's proposal for Article 28 - <br />Annual Leave which immediately follows on the next page. <br />