Union Hopes for Fair Share: ; State Workers Push for Raises

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Public employees and some lawmakers are still hopeful there will be room in the budget for pay raises, despite West Virginia leaders calling for fiscally conservative decisions this session due to the recession.

"Certainly we understand - we have brother and sister members in other states that are facing layoffs and are facing concessions," Ed Hartman, state director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees' West Virginia Council 77, said Monday.

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Union Hopes for Fair Share: ; State Workers Push for Raises

"We just want the governor and the legislature to be fair," Hartman said. "Whatever happens should be across the board."

AFSCME members from across West Virginia met with lawmakers and other union of...

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