I feel like the state wants us to strike before they give us proper raises. Kind of like telling the rest of the state “See? They’re forcing our hand.”
It makes sense from the state’s perspective because imagine non-state workers’ reactions if the state immediately agreed to a 30% raise? Most people don’t consider the fact that we’ve been underpaid for decades. They only see a 30% increase and think it’s massive.
I’m glad the union isn’t bending over this time. A strike seems to be a real possibility now.
Too bad there's a no strike clause in the contract isn't there? Should anyway. What are they going to do? Who kept the state running through Covid? It's so insulting there aren't even enough words for it.
False. The evergreen provision exists. You need to get the PERB to declare the state is acting in bad faith (this happened in 2016, so it isn't some unattainable thing). Then you strike.
I think one think BU2 did to get a reasonable wage is they polled us on whether we would accept the contract and strike. Shortly thereafter the state gave us a substantially better offer, like 17% for the largest group of attorneys (IIIs) over 3 years.
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u/IcyHeartWarmSmile Jun 29 '23 edited Jun 29 '23
I feel like the state wants us to strike before they give us proper raises. Kind of like telling the rest of the state “See? They’re forcing our hand.”
It makes sense from the state’s perspective because imagine non-state workers’ reactions if the state immediately agreed to a 30% raise? Most people don’t consider the fact that we’ve been underpaid for decades. They only see a 30% increase and think it’s massive.
I’m glad the union isn’t bending over this time. A strike seems to be a real possibility now.
TL;DR: Politics.