Las Vegas Metro officers will not go on strike, union confirms

Las Vegas Metro officers will not go on strike, union confirms

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department will not be going on strike after a planned increase in Nevada's retirement contribution rate, union leadership told 8 News Now. Last November, the board overseeing the state-run Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) program voted to increase the amount of pay that state employees, as well as police and fire department employees, must contribute. The board increa…

Las Vegas police union will not go on strike, president says

The Las Vegas Police Protective Association is instructing members to show up to work Friday, roughly two weeks after it has asked Metropolitan Police Department employees to consider a work stoppage.