The Doyle administration is offering 5 percent raises to state employees over the 2005-07 budget period, a big step up from 1 percent during the current biennium.
The proposal is aimed first at non-union employees, including University of Wisconsin faculty and academic staff, but it is also an opening position for union negotiations. Union representatives weren’t impressed Tuesday, noting that 11 of 19 contracts are not yet settled for 2003-05, and that Gov. Jim Doyle continues to cut a mammoth number of state jobs.