It appears a bill that would give state or public employees the right to accrue vacation within their first six months is still chugging along in Olympia.
The governor isn't even in the top 10 of highest-paid Washington state employees. You may be surprised by who did make the top 10. For departments with the largest payrolls, No. 1 is not surprising once you read the top 10 people, but No. 2 was a huge surprise. It makes sense, but never in a million years would I have guessed that!
Watchdog groups such as ShiftWa and The Freedom Foundation have been watching closely as Gov. Inslee has been holding less than transparent negotiations with various labor union leaders who represent thousands of state workers. And now, despite well over a one billion dollar budget shortfall, some 60,000 state workers are going to get a 5% increase over the next five years.