A mix of 5,000 California state social and health care workers will get an 11.5 percent raise over the next three years if they approve a contract their union announced this week.
The raises in the proposed contract for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2620 are front-loaded, with all of its members receiving at least a 7 percent wage increase in 2017. Some members would gain as much as 17 percent next year, depending on their job categories.
Their tentative agreement is the latest deal announced between Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration and a group of unions whose contracts expired on July 1. At its peak, 14 of the state’s 21 labor contracts had expired.
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