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Will California state workers vote to raise their pay?
The money’s on the table, but will members of state government’s largest union take it?
Members of SEIU Local 1000, who began voting Wednesday and will continue through Jan. 17, are considering a long-awaited contract that raises their pay by 11.5 percent over 42 months and includes pay boosts for certain employees by considerably higher margins.
But the deal – reached after SEIU declared itself ready to strike last month – is not a sure thing.
A clutch of SEIU members are urging their colleagues to shoot it down, arguing that workers were actually better off with a deal Gov. Jerry Brown offered earlier this year.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article124625124.html
