So the top story today in the Seattle Times was state employee pay. This article actually deserves a much longer reply than I will put up here tonight but I needed to get something started at least. I found it interesting that this was a lead story for the first section, it reads very much like an editorial instead of simply reporting.
A couple things that was never noted in the article are that the big raises they noted, the 10, 15, 20 percent and more are not a result of the union bargaining but from salary surveys that the department of personnel performs. The other thing to note is that the intent of the salary survey is bring compensation to be at most 25% behind that of the private industry. That would not exactly count as being overpaid.
more later, this was a long article it irritated me a great deal.
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