As the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) board members and executives convened for a board meeting Friday and Saturday, the State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) encouraged NCAE to publicly support more transparent and affordable health care coverage for teachers and all other school employees by endorsing the Clear Pricing Project.
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Budget conferees from the House and Senate are meeting now to work out a compromise on the state budget. This process may be completed by the end of the week, so you must take action now to make your voices heard!
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The N.C. Senate passed its budget Friday that includes the largest two-year pay increase for state employees in more than a decade.
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State employee families got welcome news on Thursday, as Gov. Roy Cooper signed Executive Order 95 that grants paid parental leave to mothers and fathers who welcome a new child into their home.
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SEANC hosted a town hall forum on the Clear Pricing Project on Thursday at the SEANC Central Office in Raleigh. N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell and N.C. Healthcare Association lobbyist Cody Hand, as well as House Minority Leader Rep. Darren Jackson (D-Wake), Rep. Joe John (D-Wake) and Rep. Yvonne Holley (D-Wake) were in attendance and answered questions from members.
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The House budget proposal passed Friday on a 61-55 floor vote with little debate.
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Thursday night’s Town Hall event on the Clear Pricing Project in Greenville was a success, even though representatives from the hospitals declined our invitation to attend.
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The State Employees Association of North Carolina today called on all House members to vote against the House budget proposal that ignores the needs of hardworking state employees.
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This Tuesday, legislators in the House Health Committee will vote on HB184 – a bad bill that will cost taxpayers and State Health Plan members more than $1 million per day if it’s enacted.
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced this week that the State Health Plan would increase the annual reimbursement rates for rural hospitals by 20 percent as part of the Clear Pricing Project.
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