Sarah Trafton reports for Columbia-Greene Media that Greene County lawmakers are sticking by the proposal the highway workers union calls "laughable," and will hold a public hearing on the issue Nov. 20. “We haven’t had a raise in over a decade,” the former president of the Greene County union, Donald Maben said. The base salary for Greene County highway workers is $34,000, and the county is offering a raise of 40 cents for the next four years. Because the union has rejected several offers from the county, a fact-finder was brought in, and Greene County legislators voted to accept their findings. But, “If they deny it, we have to declare a final impasse and do a single-year contract,” Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said. “Then we are back to the negotiation table next year.” On the Oct. 15 vote, Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore; Linda Overbaugh, R-Catskill; Patricia Handel, R-Durham; William Lawrence, R-Cairo; Harry Lennon, D-Cairo; Ed Bloomer, R-Athens; and Larry Gardner, D-Hunter supported the resolution while Thomas Hobart, R-Coxsackie; Charles Martinez, R-Coxsackie; Michael Bulich, R-Catskill; Matthew Luvera, R-Catskill; Jack Keller, R-Catskill; and Gregory Davis, R-Greenville; voted against with James Thorington, R-Windham, absent. Read more about this story at HudsonValley360.com.