Raises for top-level state (NE) managers draw union ire

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Martha Stoddard

LINCOLN — Some of Nebraska's highest-ranking state employees are getting special pay raises in a plan that has drawn fire from a top union official.

Gov. Dave Heineman is launching a new performance-pay initiative with the start of the new fiscal year Sunday. Under the plan, employees designated as “executive leaders” within state agencies will get 4 percent increases.

All other state employees will get 2 percent or 3 percent raises.

Julie Dake Abel, executive director of the largest state employee union, the Nebraska Association of Public Employees, called the plan “unbelievable” and “divisive.”

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Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20120630/NEWS/706309893/1685#raises-for-top-level-state-managers-draw-union-ire

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Will the Pete Ricketts group (http://www.platteinstitute.org/about/j-peter-ricketts) that pushed through a new law last year that will reduce pay and benefits of public employees in NE. be protesting at the governors mansion?

[quaker bill]

1. What is a raise?

it has been so long I have forgotten.

[DallasNE]

2. How Do They Pay For These Increases

Since they are not increasing any revenue (taxes). It can only mean a cut in services, which translates into jobs so how many people are getting pink slips to pay for this?