Green County, Sheriff’s Deputies Union negotiating new contract

By Ryan Broege, Editor –

Negotiations have entered their fifth week between Green County and the Green County Deputy Sheriff’s Association Local #275, as they work to hammer out a new contract for sheriff’s deputies and jail personnel.

The current contract took effect Jan. 1, 2016 and will elapse on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017.

Copies of the Sheriff’s Association and the county’s respective initial proposals, as well as the contract in effect until year’s end, were provided to the Independent-Register, before an exchange of opening offers July 19 at the Green County Justice Center in Monroe, Wis.

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