Public workers need an equal dollar service payment!

However some in the state senate are playing politics and making calculated decisions based on personal ambition for higher elected office. We need to remind them that Tennessee deserves real solutions from our elected officials in Nashville, not more cut-backs and political posturing. Many such solutions have been proposed and there is broad agreement. 

In yesterday's Tennessean newspaper Rep. Mike Turner and Sen. Jim Kyle put forward a series of budget proposals including an equal dollar one-time "service payment" for all public workers - state agency employees, public school teachers and higher education staff and faculty. UCW fully supports rewarding hardworking public employees who improve the lives of all Tennessee residents every day. We also feel that any such payment must include full funding for higher education workers, must remain an equal dollar for everyone and must include all public workers including those who have less than three years of public service.

It is up to us to win a just budget for our families, and for our communities all across the state. Take action here.