New California state worker contract gives 5% raises right away with more to come

[TexasTowelie]

Nearly 6,000 California state health and social workers will get a 5% pay raise this month under a new three-year contract their union recently reached with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration.

The 5.06% pay raise kicks in retroactively effective July 1 for the members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2620, which includes physical therapists, pharmacists and behavior specialists. Workers will get another 2.5% pay raise on July 1, 2022.

The union’s previous contract had expired in July 2020.

More than 2,000 of those workers will get even more pay raises next year under the new contract. Adoption specialists, for instance, will get 8% pay hikes. Some pharmacists and physical therapists at the top of their steps will also get 8% raises.

The contract also doubles the bonuses workers get for working nights and weekends, said Cliff Tillman, a senior business agent for the union. Those working between midnight and 6 a.m, for instance, will now be paid $2 an hour extra, up from $1 an hour extra they were paid before.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article252735123.html

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Oh, my. That is truly wonderful.

I happen to be out of the workforce at my age, 72, but I did work in my earlier years at jobs that more or less fell under this description.

Having struggled much of my working life, I am enormously happy at the recent changes. Increase in minimum wage. Money being given directly to parents of children, hooray!

In my retirement I am personally doing okay. I know lots of agemates who are not doing so well. None of us should live in dire poverty after many years in the work force, but unfortunately, that is too often the case.