County grants raises for jail workers

A standoff over pay between the county and correctional officers ended last night when the County Council approved a bill granting the jail workers scaled-back raises.

"They didn't give us everything that we wanted, but oh well," said Dale Waldroff, president of the Fraternal Order of Detention Center Officers and Personnel.

The detention officers had threatened a lawsuit against the county in July after the council passed bills granting none of the raises promised in the jail workers' contract.

Faced with a budget crunch, the rest of the nine unions that represent other county workers had renegotiated...