About 20,000 Wisconsin state employees will give up an across-the-board pay raise for most of 2003-2005 to cover the increased cost of health insurance if they approve a tentative labor agreement next month.
Instead, the workers would get a 1-percent salary increase for only the last three weeks of June. That wouldn’t provide much extra pay, but it would build the raises into workers’ base pay when bargaining for the 2005-2007 contract begins.
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