Greg Devereux who said the same market rate parity philosophy should extend to the rest of state employees at the bargaining table: “It sounds like they went through a fair, deliberative process,” said Greg Devereux, who heads the Washington Federation of State Employees. Devereux says the governor should take the same approach when the time comes to negotiate new contracts with state workers. “We would hope that just as cabinet member’s salaries have been adjusted to meet market demands that the same thing would apply to state worker salary survey issues,” he said. According to the most recent state salary survey, 82 percent of state employees earn below market rate, with 30 percent falling more than 25 percent behind comparable counterparts.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:28:58 +0000