Trends and Developments Concerning Washington Public Labor Contracts
By Jim Cline
Long overdue good news for Washington Dispatchers. The Governor has signed SB 5808, extending binding interest arbitration rights to E911 centers. The law includes emergency telecommunicators in the definition of “uniform employees” under the PECBA interest arbitration provisions.
By Jim Cline
The latest inflation numbers raises further questions about whether the CPI will continue to decline quickly below 3% as had been predicted. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released US All Cities inflation numbers for March this past Wednesday. Both the National “W” and “U” March indices were reported at 3.5%. That is an increase over the respective 3.1% and 3.2% numbers reported for February.
By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer
In the previous two articles in this wage series, we discussed the extent to which population and assessed valuation correlated with wage rankings. In this article, we discussed geographic location and the effect of various labor markets on public safety wages.
