Post by Logan on Jan 13, 2016 14:31:28 GMT -6
Asking the Brown administration about state labor contract negotiations is like asking Coca-Cola for its soft drink recipe.
Fuggeddaboutit.
So it was surprising last week that Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed 2016-17 budget dangled $350 million “to fund potential employee compensation increases.” That’s on top of approximately $383 million committed to raises bargained a few years ago.
The reason: Brown is starting talks with 15 bargaining units with contracts that expire this summer and he wants them to start paying into the state’s retiree health fund.
Brown had the same bargaining goals last year for another four bargaining units with contracts that expired in mid-2015. Correctional officers and maintenance workers still haven’t reached agreements. Scientists rejected a 15 percent raise over three years with incrementally rising contributions to the retiree health fund, which the state matches. Even with the raise, the scientists’ pay would have lagged behind the market.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article54361840.html
Fuggeddaboutit.
So it was surprising last week that Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed 2016-17 budget dangled $350 million “to fund potential employee compensation increases.” That’s on top of approximately $383 million committed to raises bargained a few years ago.
The reason: Brown is starting talks with 15 bargaining units with contracts that expire this summer and he wants them to start paying into the state’s retiree health fund.
Brown had the same bargaining goals last year for another four bargaining units with contracts that expired in mid-2015. Correctional officers and maintenance workers still haven’t reached agreements. Scientists rejected a 15 percent raise over three years with incrementally rising contributions to the retiree health fund, which the state matches. Even with the raise, the scientists’ pay would have lagged behind the market.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article54361840.html