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Legislative Quick Update - week 2
January 14, 2008
Just a quick update. As many of you know the Governor recommended that state
employees get a 3% across the board raise at his 2008 'State of the State'
address. This is the same as school service personnel but differs from class
room teachers who would get an additional $400, about another 1%. The AFSCME
Legislative team will be talking to the House and Senate leadership as well as
the Governor's office again to improve the proposed increase. Your help by
contacting Delegates and Senators in your county and attending our February 18
Lobby Day at the Capitol will be a big step and increase our chances of success.
Finally, our increment bill (HB 2995) was introduced on the first day
of the session, and referred only to House Finance Committee. AFSCME takes sole
ownership of this bill. We challenge state employees to contact any of the
co-sponsors (Delegates Caputo, Duke, Fleischauer, Staggers, Manchin, Marshall,
Martin, Perdue, Perry, Spencer and Hutchins) and ask them if any other
organization, member or staff, ever contacted them about sponsoring the bill.
The answer is No. Also we encourage all our members to contact these Delegates
and thank them for sponsoring this bill which doubles the amount of increment
pay state employees would receive every year.Additional Legislative Session updates will be posted here as more of our bills
get introduces and Legislative Committees begin to take action. |
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AFSCME WV Council 77, AFL-CIO
501 Leon Sullivan Way, 1st Floor
Charleston, WV 25301
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(304) 342-2114
Fax (304) 342-2441
Council77@aol.com
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