Marin County reaches tentative labor deal with largest union, hiking overall pay 12.6%

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News May 18, 2026May 18, 2026

The County of Marin announced it has reached a tentative two-year labor agreement with its largest union, the Marin Association of Public Employees, covering about 1,339 budgeted positions, or more than half the county workforce.

The contract, which still requires approval from the Marin County Board of Supervisors at its May 19 meeting, would run from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2028. Negotiations began in September 2025 and ended April 24, according to the announcement.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

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.

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