California Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing his one and only solution to the state's growing deficit: tax hikes, in the form of an initiative in November. But Bloomberg's Michael Marois reported that many of California's state employees are poised to get raises. Wrote Marois: "As California Governor Jerry Brown
seeks a temporary 5 percent pay cut from public employees to
fill the largest state deficit in the U.S., many of those same
workers are poised for raises next year. Labor contracts covering 140,000 workers grant increases of
about 3 percent to top earners beginning in July 2013, according
to the Personnel Administration Department. About 34,000
employees became eligible this year as the raises began to be
incorporated." So if voters pass the tax hikes, the extra money will help boost the pay of union members. Is this a great state or what?
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