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Local 1000 Activism Leads to Salary Increase
Following a groundbreaking, collaborative effort with the State to identify $200 million in cost savings for the upcoming year, our 2% general salary increase that would have been deferred to 2022 will instead be reinstated and paid in July 2021.
Facing a pandemic-fueled $54 billion deficit one year ago, Governor Newsom called for a 9.23% pay cut for all state workers. Our bargaining team reached an agreement that reduced the pay cut, including postponing OPEB contributions and increasing health care payments, and mitigated it with a Personal Leave Program (PLP).
Cost Savings Task Force
One of the victories we were proud to secure in our Side Letter negotiations was the creation of a Cost Savings Task Force. This Task Force ensures that our members have the ability to leverage our power in this collaboration to influence the State to implement our recommendations. The ultimate goal is to identify $200 million in savings so that our represented employees will get their next general salary increase in July 2021 as initially negotiated.