{"id":8223,"date":"2010-05-27T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T23:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2010-05-27T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T23:25:35","slug":"carlsbadistan-police-may-get-a-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8223","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbadistan Police May Get A Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/012710_-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/012710_-1.jpg','popup','width=1000,height=749,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/012710_-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"012710 -1\" \/><\/a>While the recent City Council hammer drop on the Carlsbad Fire Department resulted in what some consider to be an eight percent pay cut for <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> fire fighters and second rate benefits for new hires, the Carlsbad Police Department has apparently reached a &#8220;tentative&#8221; deal that will give their staff a four percent raise over the next two years according to a <strong>Michael Burge<\/strong> story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/may\/27\/carlsbad-police-union-reach-tentative-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> . . . the police officers will receive a 4 percent raise over two years, in two 2 percent installments. And they will pick up the 8 percent share of their pension contributions over two years, in two 4 percent increments. . . .The City Council this week didn\u2019t impose a two-tier pension system on police officers, but plans to hold a vote in November to have residents decide whether to cap employee pension benefits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to our calculations that means the police officers only got a four percent pay cut of the next two years. Better than eight, right? Not only that but the new guys won&#8217;t get worse benefits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/may\/27\/carlsbad-police-union-reach-tentative-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the recent City Council hammer drop on the Carlsbad Fire Department resulted in what some consider to be an eight percent pay cut for Carlsbadistan&#8217;s fire fighters and second rate benefits for new hires, the Carlsbad Police Department has apparently reached a &#8220;tentative&#8221; deal that will give their staff a four percent raise over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}