State Employees Endorse Roy Cooper for Governor
The statewide committee of EMPAC, the political arm of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, voted recently to endorse Roy Cooper for Governor of North Carolina.
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The statewide committee of EMPAC, the political arm of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, voted recently to endorse Roy Cooper for Governor of North Carolina.
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, SEANC Lobbyist Flint Benson spoke out last week at a Retirement Systems Board of Trustees meeting on several issues. Benson, a former SEANC president and retired state employee himself, took particular offense to the comment from a retirement system official that the system was in good shape because it doesn’t hand out cost-of-living adjustments “willy-nilly.” In his remarks, he set the record straight.
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The General Assembly went home last Friday after a whirlwind day that stretched right up to midnight, with a flurry of bills being passed up until the final gavel.
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The 2016 short session of the General Assembly is all but complete. After agreeing to state budget adjustments for the coming year, Senate leaders offered an adjournment resolution for Saturday.
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The General Assembly announced last night its compromise on the state budget for the coming year, and the news is a mixed bag for state employees and retirees that stops well short of fully addressing the fact that we keep falling further behind each year.
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Budget negotiations are almost complete. Legislators are getting antsy, and the only thing holding them back from going home are state employee raises and retiree cost-of-living adjustments.
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The House and Senate continue to iron out the details of the state budget behind closed doors, and SEANC’s lobbyists are not happy about what they are hearing.
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Though there wasn’t a lot of news out of the legislature this week, SEANC lobbyists and members were busy fighting for pay raises for state employees and retiree COLAs as the budget debate comes down to the wire.
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As expected, the Senate rushed its budget proposal through this week, giving the final OK to it after midnight this morning. Simply put, the Senate’s budget is a bad one for state employees and retirees.
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What was expected to be a down week at the General Assembly between the passage of the House budget and the announcement of the Senate’s proposal wound up being quite the opposite. Bills filed in both the House and Senate this week would have harmful effects on both SEANC and state retirees.
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