State Employees
I received the following e-mail today regarding wages for state employees,
My name is *** and I am in your district for the legislature. I would like the legislat[ors] to take into consideration a considerable raise for the State Employees. It has been years since we have been taken into account. I realize that there are other departments that need, but the [*** agency] has been over looked for years as unimportant. The service that we provide is as important as any other, but we are always on the bottom. When you consider 1% it generally takes away instead of increasing. It has been a long time since we have been addressed for even a cost of living. The cost of a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk has increased triple folded, but our wages have not. In conjunction with the other states we don't even compare to their wages. Every year we are given more paper work, more responsibility, and then throughly forgotten at the end of the legislature session. Our benefits go up every year and we don't even get enough to make up for the increase taken out of our checks. It would be nice to be considered this year with more than a slap in the face.We see other divisions going at least somewhere and we are at the bottom of the totem pole. There is a very nice surplus this year and we would like to know that we are able to get part of that in the next year. I am not in a position to acquire this alone, but with your help there is a possibility that we will be able to see over the black cloud that is surrounding us. It does not make for good working conditions to know that you are doing a job, and not being able to get paid what you feel you are worth. And all of us are worth more than we are getting paid.
I took out the name and, because it is a small agency here in St. George, the department. The same point could be made, however, and is made, by other areas of state government. While the legislature has worked very hard in the recent downturn to keep education whole or a little up, this has meant we've given short shrift to other areas of state government. Government employees are due a salary increase. Taxpayers, however, do not need a heavier saddle.
My response was that the House intends to fund pay increases through efficiencies found in reorganizing state government. Gov. Huntsman has pledged to find 1% in efficiencies; that equals 80 million dollars -- which would fund a pay increase for state employees. Others simply want to first fund an increase out of the existing surplus. That's a poor idea. If we use the surplus money first, we won't find the efficiencies, and we'll end up raising taxes.
My name is *** and I am in your district for the legislature. I would like the legislat[ors] to take into consideration a considerable raise for the State Employees. It has been years since we have been taken into account. I realize that there are other departments that need, but the [*** agency] has been over looked for years as unimportant. The service that we provide is as important as any other, but we are always on the bottom. When you consider 1% it generally takes away instead of increasing. It has been a long time since we have been addressed for even a cost of living. The cost of a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk has increased triple folded, but our wages have not. In conjunction with the other states we don't even compare to their wages. Every year we are given more paper work, more responsibility, and then throughly forgotten at the end of the legislature session. Our benefits go up every year and we don't even get enough to make up for the increase taken out of our checks. It would be nice to be considered this year with more than a slap in the face.We see other divisions going at least somewhere and we are at the bottom of the totem pole. There is a very nice surplus this year and we would like to know that we are able to get part of that in the next year. I am not in a position to acquire this alone, but with your help there is a possibility that we will be able to see over the black cloud that is surrounding us. It does not make for good working conditions to know that you are doing a job, and not being able to get paid what you feel you are worth. And all of us are worth more than we are getting paid.
I took out the name and, because it is a small agency here in St. George, the department. The same point could be made, however, and is made, by other areas of state government. While the legislature has worked very hard in the recent downturn to keep education whole or a little up, this has meant we've given short shrift to other areas of state government. Government employees are due a salary increase. Taxpayers, however, do not need a heavier saddle.
My response was that the House intends to fund pay increases through efficiencies found in reorganizing state government. Gov. Huntsman has pledged to find 1% in efficiencies; that equals 80 million dollars -- which would fund a pay increase for state employees. Others simply want to first fund an increase out of the existing surplus. That's a poor idea. If we use the surplus money first, we won't find the efficiencies, and we'll end up raising taxes.
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