Speaker of the House Frank Chopp asked a gathering of about 300 labor member-lobbyists this morning to help him get the message to his colleagues that the rush to fill the $8 billion budget deficit shouldn’t trample our principles.
The budget, Chopp said, is “a moral document of our values.”
Chopp spoke at the annual legislative conference of the Washington State Labor Council in Olympia.
WSLC President Rick Bender said new sources of revenue must be found because the state can’t cut its way out of the budget deficit.
The delegates also stood in solidarity when Federation President Carol Dotlich asked for their support to save your contract and collective bargaining in the wake of Gov. Chris Gregoire’s decision not to forward the negotiated economic package to the Legislature. The governor cancelled her appearance at the labor conference because of illness.
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