Protesting teachers likely won’t be the only public employees who see pay raises and workplace improvements this year.
SPEED READ:
- In their State of the State addresses and executive orders this year, many governors are making public workforce issues a priority.
- They are particularly targeting teachers and corrections staff for pay raises.
- Several governors are focused on fighting sexual harassment and LGBT discrimination in state government.
In states across the country, many governors across the aisle are making it a priority this year to raise public employees’ pay and address other issues facing state workers.
In some cases, the raises — which need to be approved by lawmakers — would be limited to teachers and corrections staff, following a year filled with teacher strikes and a year in which the struggle to fill corrections jobs reached emergency levels in certain places.
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