The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Employment Relations has given its approval to pay raises for University of Wisconsin and state employees.
Those workers would get a two-percent bump each of the next two years.
The special bipartisan committee didn’t vote on pay raises for state troopers because of an approved 23 percent increase for entry-level salaries.
Panel members weren’t just handing out money – they also rejected the governor’s request to set Wisconsin’s minimum hourly wage at 15-dollars.
