Say What? - State Employees Receive 3% Pay Raise While Unemployment Is High and Businesses Are On Lockdown? - Declare Governments "Non-Essential"

Ed.'s note: One of the purposes of a pay raise is to drive a further wedge between these federal (civil service spooks) and state employees and the private sector. The ones who are going to be saying it was "better to be safe than sorry" on this coronavirus lockdown are going to be the state and federal bureaucrats, civil service employees and people who won't lose their jobs. These people for the most part in their smugness even though they destroyed the economy, will be saying this because they still have employment. These are the types who will be receiving pay raises to further entrench them into the system. This will force these bureaucrats into the position to make them feel like they are in an elite caste who have ultimate control over the rest of us. Both Connecticut and Minnesota are expected to increase state employment salaries in the millions of dollars. Get ready, because the Trump administration is going to go to war (an internal civil war) on the previous Obama administration bureaucracy in the coming months. Be of light heart Americans, we are winning.

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Source: Florida Politics

Budget conference: State employees to receive 3% pay raise

House and Senate leaders agreed to the upper house's plan for state employees.

By Renzo Downey | March 7, 2020

The House and Senate have agreed to give state employees an across-the-board 3% pay raise for the coming fiscal year.

That move puts the two chambers consolidating on an agreement state union workers called historical.

Senate budget chief Rob Bradley — standing alongside his House counterpart, Travis Cummings — gave a definitive yes to the across the board raise in a meeting with reporters. That agreement showed the House fully acceding to the Senate’s proposal.

Jacqui Carmona, political director of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Florida, lauded lawmakers for reaching an agreement in favor of state workers. But Mike Brennan, a negotiator for the Florida State Fire Service Association,

During contract negotiations with the Department of Management Services (DMS), the state's largest union of government employees had posed an initial offer of 5% across the board pay raise. But the department never returned a counteroffer, insisting it had no authority to okay the state's spending.

When the Senate dropped its original budget proposal, it suggested a 3% pay raise for all state workers, the first proportional raise in recent memory. The budget also outlines that the minimum increase will be $1,000 if a 3% increase would fall below that.

However, the House proposed those making less than $51,800 per year get $1,800, capped at a $51,800 sum. In effect, that model would have provided a larger pay raise to those making less than $50,291.26 annually, at which point the Senate’s budget presents more.

Carmona and AFSCME backed the Senate's initial plan over the House's. That outline offered the most collectively for state workers, she argued.

House Democratic Leader Kionne McGhee joined in praise of the deal. The Cutler Bay Representative noted the pay raises were a priority of his caucus.

"We are proud that this year our hardworking state employees will get raises," he said in a statement. “They do an incredible job for the citizens of our state."

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