Date: 2|24|2011
Details of Recent Union Contracts in Wisconsin Emerge
Wisconsin is at the forefront of the debate over public employee unions nationwide. A review of recent union contracts with the state clearly shows the sweet deal public employees enjoy through their collective bargaining process.
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Just this week the city of Wisconsin Dells completed contract negotiations with AFSCME, approving three-year contracts for two union locals. The contract with AFSCME provides no raise this year, but a one percent raise in 2012 and a two percent raise in 2013. The contract with the public works and clerical workers also provides an employee that loses a commercial driver’s license due to “circumstances arising outside of work” that that person would be moved to a non-driving job if available. A person would lose a CDL if arrested for drunk driving. The dispatchers’ contract, also passed unanimously, provides for a “power shift” pay differential of 25 cents per hour for hours worked between 7 pm. and 3:30 am.
In Janesville, government workers are trying to get a contract that would include a two percent pay raise this year and for the next two years. Additionally, the government (i.e: taxpayers) would pay 100 percent of the workers pension contributions and the worker would only contribute eight percent to their health plan.
Government workers in Madison are working on getting a contract that allows them to continue to receive their current pension and health benefits for two years and enjoy a three percent pay raise.
A recnt contract in La Crosse County gave government workers the same level of health and dental premiums they enjoyed in 2010 and has the government covering the full pension payment for most workers.
In Sheboygan a contract passed where nurses contribute nothing towards their pension and in Racine government workers got a contract that included pay raises.
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