They once put what amounted to 29 percent on the table. It's part of police work in Portland. Pluchos doesn't think he's exploiting his fallen comrades for a pay increase. The facts speak for themselves.
Officers are out there risking their lives each and every day.
The union president also argues that officers haven't received a raise beyond inflation in the last 12 years. It seems the city is more interested in giving away money to other entities than compensating officers with a fair wage. Pluchos concedes that there's no chance the city will buy the union's opening proposal, just as there's no chance the union will buy the city's opening offer of raises equal to annual inflation rates. They start at different ends of the field, not next to each other. How much I don't know.