About 20,000 members of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, have ratified contracts for the two-year budget period that ended last month.
The four WSEU contracts cover workers in administrative support, blue collar and non-building trades, security, public safety and technical work. Seven other bargaining units in other unions representing 4,500 workers – including UW teaching assistants, engineers, public defenders, state attorneys, research professionals and others – have not settled their contracts.