The 500 members of SEIU Local 668 have been negotiating for a new contract for over a year, and have been without one for nine months.

AFSCME District Council 88, which falls under Council 13, represents a majority of county workers in Bucks, District Council 88 director Tom Tosti said. The county government is Bucks County's third-largest employer, with about 2,300 employees. The county did not comment publicly on contract negotiations with the union.

Union workers supplying the public with a variety of services from 911 to children and youth services to mental health programs to drug and alcohol support walked the picket line Friday, Set. 20, 204,

Over 300 Bucks County employees will strike Friday over health care benefits, union president Steve Catanese said Thursday. The employees work in 911, Children and Youth Services, Neshaminy Manor Nursing Home,