DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – Unionized Bucks County employees walked off the job for a noisy strike in the county seat of Doylestown.
Striking union members lined a Bucks County street in the early afternoon urging motorists to sound their horns, all part of a one-day strike to force their county bosses to take notice. Bucks County employee Samantha Otto said, “If we are out here causing a ruckus, we can’t be out there in the community and at our jobs trying to help the people we really want to support.”
Some 300 members of SEIU Local 668 walked off the job Friday and gathered in front of the county administration building for a loud protest of speeches and chants. 500 employees are in the local but 200 of them, like 911 supervisors, are prohibited from striking.
Union leaders claim Bucks County Commissioners are trying to force a 19 percent cut in the funds paid …