Riverside County agrees to union contracts costing $60 million

Raises for Riverside County employees and a higher pay scale for probation officers are part of two new labor deals that will cost $60 million over the next five years. The four-year contract with Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 777 and the five-year pact with the Riverside Sheriffs’ Association’s Public Safety Unit — approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday,