WI - $5 increase in healthcare premiums!!! - per month

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MacIver Posts Another Government Employee Union Agreement Online

MacIver News Service | December 6, 2010

[Madison, Wisconsin] As a part of their commitment to transparency in labor negotiations, the MacIver Institute has posted the tentative agreement for yet another government employee union online.

None of this seems to be of interest to state newspapers.

An initial review of the tentative agreement reveals the following:

    * More than 95 percent of the employees represented by the WPEC will see health insurance premium increases in 2011 of only $5 per month for individual plans and $11 per month for family plan from what they were paying in 2009.  There is also an understanding, memorialized in these documents that should any other local agree to a reduced health insurance premium. it will also be given to WPEC. A similar letter has been submitted to all locals with collective bargaining agreements concerning the cost of health insurance premiums.

# Some agencies and campuses block job hunting web sites. The new contract allows union employees to access those sites from work or to take the time necessary to access them from a job center.

# This language allows a laid off employee to refuse one offer of restoration without giving up their restoration rights. Currently an employee who refuses an offer of restoration loses all of their restoration rights immediately.

How about service/term limits for public employees?  Contributions to 401k type plans instead of pensions?

Several lawmakers support the call to have the state post these tentative agreements online, immediately. While the state has rebuffed those requests, the MacIver Institute continues to do so, on it’s site: www.MacIverInstitute.com.

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read more here - http://maciverinstitute.com/2010/12/maciver-posts-another-government-employee-union-agreement-online/