On 4/3/2018, the final meeting of the Fairfax County Retirement Workgroup met for the final time and voted on on potential recommendations to change the County Employee Retirement Systems. We have been working to keep our membership informed, but documents on the workgroup and the meeting schedule since November can be found here. After months
As we have been saying over the past few months, your Retirement System is once again under attack. After a number of presentations to the Board of Supervisors, a "Workgroup" was stood up comprising representatives from different employee representatives from across the County workforce along with Supervisors Penny Gross and John Cook. You can see
Local 5000 supported the members that participated in the Police Unity Tour by donating to each of them so they could reach their fundraising goal. It is an honor to be a supporter for such a worthy cause that honors officers killed in the line of duty and we will continue to do so in
In 1990, a small group of Fairfax County Police Officers were concerned about a host of issues challenging a department and community in the midst of unprecedented change and expansion. The new organization would focus on pay, benefits and working conditions, areas where employees may not have had as much input in the past. The
