Opinion: Public sector union asks for 43% raise
California’s public-employee unions hold an iron grip on the Legislature, which is why — as any perusal of the Transparent California website shows — government salaries and pensions here have reached almost unimaginable levels. But not all unions wield equal clout, so it’s been enlightening watching one particular union continually fail to dramatically boost its members’ wages.
Back in February, members of the California Association of Professional Scientists — a union that represents scientists in the state’s myriad regulatory agencies — overwhelmingly rejected Gov. Gavin Newsom’s offer to boost pay by 2% to 4%. The union says their pay, which averages $7,400 a month plus generous benefits, lags state engineers and federal scientists by 40%.
Had the union been reasonable, negotiations might have been fruitful. The union demanded raises of up to 43% to address the so-called disparities. It has been in the midst of a three-year bargaining dispute. As the Sacramento Bee reports, the union has been calling for dramatic pay increases since a 2005 contract increased engineer salaries. Rank-and-file scientists are still seething over a 2014 court case that boosted pay for supervisors, but not scientists.
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