UPDATE: Union modifies contracts without returning to the bargaining table, or notifying its members
Posted by Sonya Jones - September 17, 2008After repeated, unanswered requests to the state’s Labor Relations Office regarding the validity of the original contract, we finally got an answer from the union. Well, sort of.
Yesterday, WFSE posted an updated contract for general government employees at 12:21 pm. In the updated version, the new step increase to take effect on July 1, 2012, has been curiously modified, err, eliminated.
HERE is the pertinent portion of the original contract negotiated between the union and the state.
HERE is the pertinent part of the modified contract.
HERE is the update sent to members after the contract was modified. Notice that members are still being told they are receiving a new step increase as part of the compensation package.
The union is making an end-run run around state law by still providing for future pay increases beyond the next biennium’s budget, without giving it a date certain.
Questions that need to be answered:
In order to modify compensation, shouldn’t the union have to return to the bargaining table?
Before members vote on the contract, shouldn’t they be told the truth about the compensation package?
What does this say about the competency of the governor’s bargaining team and their knowledge of statutory limitations on binding future legislatures?
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