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State employee here. UAW for our office jobs. Don't understand it - UAW? For an office job? 3.5% annual raises on average. Pay good, demanding af job tho. DE-manding. Pay scale increases are good but after 7 years you top out.
Are you in Michigan by chance? I was job hunting and noticed that a few years ago. I thought it was odd.
I wish we were unionized in my state gov.
I work for my local state government, and we are unionized. As a state employee we don't get regular raises and never get any bonuses or perks. Having a union is good as we occasionally can negotiate a raise that they try to fight us on. Without the union, we'd barely make enough to pay our bills. I'll never really get ahead working a government job but at least the union fights for us.
I am familiar with some positions with HR with state (Sacramento) that actually do give bonus annually. I actually am receiving annually raises. I hope this helps.
I was unaware that any government organization could be unionized. That sounds like a massive conflict of interest.
Much like teacher, other government employees can unionize, but are generally barred from striking. Governments and especially individual government agencies and divisions are as liable to cut corners and abuse workers as any business, so collective bargaining helps even the playing field given the lack of negotiating tools.
My state government isn’t unionized. Raises come if passed as part of State Budget