Washington Public Sector Labor Negotiations Blog
Trends and Developments Concerning Washington Public Labor Contracts
By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer
In our last newsletter we discussed the most recent inflation report from CPI. It shows the All-Cities “W” index inflation had decelerated to 2.9% and the corresponding Seattle inflation index had dropped to 3.6 (down from 4.5% just in April). The less commonly relied upon Seattle “U” index was notch higher at 3.8%. Other West Coast indices were close in line with the All-Cities numbers.
By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released their bimonthly inflation report two weeks ago showing inflation through June. We have previously reported on the slowdown of inflation with predictions of further slowdown ahead. This report confirms that expected trend. Most notable about the June report is that anticipated cooling of the “Seattle” numbers is materializing.
By Jim Cline
In our recent newsletters we discussed the extension of arbitration to emergency dispatchers (Newsletter 4/26/24). In the last article, we discussed what the chief interest arbitration factors were under law and arbitration precedent (Newsletter 4/29/24). We noted in that article that there may be some complexities in extending those principles to dispatchers and we discuss that here.
