HELENA – Members of Montana’s three state employee unions have approved a pay plan proposed by unions negotiators and the Schweitzer administration. The plan still must be approved by lawmakers.
The proposal calls for a 1 percent increase in base pay effective in January 2012 and a 3 percent raise in January 2013.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s budget office has said the pay increase would cost the state about $22 million over the next two-year budget period.
Leaders of the MEA-MFT, AFSCME of Montana and the Montana Public Employees Association announced Tuesday that the unions voted to approve the pay plan. They did not release the results of the votes.