{"id":12817,"date":"2020-05-16T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2020-05-16T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T18:06:05","slug":"mcgeo-protests-at-riemers-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12817","title":{"rendered":"MCGEO Protests at Riemer\u2019s House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angry at the county council\u2019s rejection of its revised collective bargaining agreement, MCGEO \u2013 the largest county employee union outside MCPS \u2013 protested at Council Member Hans Riemer\u2019s house today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every council member except Tom Hucker and Will Jawando voted to reject the agreements<\/a>, so why did the union target Riemer alone? MCGEO\u2019s spokeswoman told WJLA-7<\/a>, \u201cHans was the most vehement against the contract. He really led the charge.\u201d MCGEO is also upset at Riemer for voting to reject both its original contract<\/a> (which provided a peak raise of 9.4%<\/a>) and its revised contract<\/a> last year. Council Member Andrew Friedson was the only other council member to vote against both of those agreements along with Riemer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MCGEO doesn’t like Hans Riemer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t just about the contracts. Riemer\u2019s repeated strong criticisms of County Executive Marc Elrich have led many to believe that Riemer is considering a challenge to Elrich in the next election. Riemer is in his third term on the council and term limits prevent him from running again for his current seat. None of this is lost on MCGEO, which claimed credit for Elrich\u2019s election<\/a>. By targeting Riemer, MCGEO accomplishes two objectives \u2013 defending its contract and punishing a potential rival to Elrich. Given MCGEO\u2019s long history of tough tactics<\/a> against politicians who vote against its contracts, this is likely just the opening move of a larger campaign against Riemer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The union has published more than 30 photos of its protest at Riemer\u2019s home. Some of them show Riemer\u2019s house itself. I won\u2019t be reposting actual images of the house, but here are a few of the protestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Adam Pagnucco. Angry at the county council\u2019s rejection of its revised collective bargaining agreement, MCGEO \u2013 the largest county employee union outside MCPS \u2013 protested at Council Member Hans Riemer\u2019s house today. Every council member except Tom Hucker and Will Jawando voted to reject the agreements, so why did the union target Riemer alone? … Continue reading MCGEO Protests at Riemer\u2019s House<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[151,90,22],"tags":[1545,1513,1469],"class_list":["post-12817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-hans-riemer","category-mcgeo","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-hans-riemer","tag-mcgeo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3kJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12826,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions\/12826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}