California’s largest state worker union to vote on strike

[TexasTowelie]

State government’s largest union is edging closer to a strike.

SEIU Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker has called for a strike vote of the union’s 95,000 members beginning next week, according to a statement on the union website.

The union is trying to get a bigger raise than the 2.96 percent pay hike Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration is offering. Brown’s proposal would raise SEIU salaries by 12 percent over four years, but also require its members to begin paying a contribution toward their retiree health care costs.

“We still believe the state can do better,” Walker wrote in a message to SEIU members.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article109176237.html