Elizabeth New (Hovde) shares an opinion column about private salary negotiations between the state and public employee unions
Elizabeth New (Hovde)
Washington Policy Center
Should salary negotiations between the state and public employee unions be private? No. They help no one. I wrote an opinion column about this with Jason Mercier, vice president at Mountain States Policy Center, and Jackson Maynard, executive director of the Citizen Action Defense Fund. It ran in a handful of publications this week. Find it here or here.
I’ll have another blog out soon about Tuesday’s “Walkout for Washington.” This public employee action was organized by the Washington Federation of State Employees to protest state salary offers. The crazy thing about the walkout is that union members involved in it don’t even know the details of the pay-increase proposals or the negotiating that is in play. Stay tuned.
Elizabeth New (Hovde) is a policy analyst and the director of the Centers for Health Care and Worker Rights at the Washington Policy Center. She is a Clark County resident.
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