The 5 percent pay cut/furlough bill passed committee Thursday and is set for a vote of the full Senate Friday. Continue to call legislators!
URGENT CALL TO ACTION!
Call the Legislative Message Hotline at 1-800-562-6000. Tell your senator to vote NO! on SSB 6503, the state employee furlough bill. Its unintended consequences cost more, not less. (You can also go to the Federation website at www.wfse.org to send an e-mail to your senator.)
UPDATE
The Senate Ways and Means Committee held a hastily called lunchtime meeting Thursday to pass out the furlough bill. It was amended somewhat, but is still a bad bill that needs to be opposed. The committee added a few more groups of employees exempted from furloughs, like revenue collections. And it calls on agencies to achieve an overall savings of $69 million in compensation costs through furloughs, layoffs and other measures. If agencies don’t come up with a plan by May 15, those agency employees will face 13 mandatory furlough days.
SSB 6503 is still a bad bill.
Get those calls in. Call 1-800-562-6000. Tell your senator to vote NO! on SSB 6503, the furlough bill.
That’s it for now. Call late Friday for the next message, but this hotline may be updated sooner as events warrant.
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