Tentative agreements have recently been reached between the Marin County Board of Supervisors and the Sheriff Staff Officers’ Association, the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 16, the Probation Managers’ Association and the Marin County Management Employees Association. 

Prior to any board approval, unions must take the tentative agreements to their members for a ratification vote. The agreements then go back to the board for approval and updates. 

Union ratification and board approval has already occurred for new contract agreements for the Deputy Sheriffs Association and Teamsters Local 856’s Deputy District Attorney Unit.

Marin County is negotiating with all 10 employee labor groups that represent over 2,000 county workers. The agreements include cost-of-living adjustments — up to 11% over three years — as well as continued health care and other benefit enhancements.

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.