BARGAINING 101

Read our 2025 Contract Platform

Fighting for Fairness. Fighting for the Future.

Our 2025 contract campaign is built around three core priorities shaped directly by what members have said they need most. These priorities guide every proposal we make and may shift as negotiations evolve based on the State’s responses.

Here are your top priorities:

    1. Safe Workplaces: Enforceable protections from unsafe conditions, workplace violence, and burnout

    2. Fair Workload Standards: Address understaffing, overassignment, and unrealistic productivity demands

    3. Workplace Equity: End contractor overuse, ensure internal promotions, and eliminate favoritism

    4. Telework and Flexibility: Standardize fair, consistent telework policies that reflect the nature of our work

    5. Licensure and Credentialing Support: Improve paid time off for CEUs and fee reimbursements

    1. General Salary Increase (GSI): Raise base wages across the board

    2. Special Salary Adjustments (SSAs): Targeted raises for underpaid or hard-to-fill classifications

    3. Geographic Pay Differentials: Compensation that reflects the cost of living in high-expense areas

    4. Retention Incentives: Pay Differentials, education reimbursements, bilingual differentials, and longevity pay that reward staying power

    5. Protect Our Retirement: Preserve pension security and fight back against cost-shifting

    6. Stronger Health Benefits: Raise the State’s contribution to health care premiums

    1. Stronger Union Rights: Protect steward access and worksite presence

    2. Transparency in Contracting: Require the State to justify and disclose outsourcing decisions before replacing state workers

    3. Member Feedback in Decisions: Ensure members and union leaders are meaningfully consulted before workplace policies or conditions change

    4. Member Input Matters: Ensure the State consults members and union leaders before making workplace changes

    5. Shared Role in Compensation Studies: Guarantee union participation in the State’s compensation studies to ensure transparency, accuracy, and fairness in how our work is valued