The Governor’s office continues its secret negotiations with state employee unions, despite calls to open the process to public scrutiny. The outcome of negotiations (read: Inslee giving away taxpayer money to unions that gave a million dollars to elect him) will determine compensation contracts for state employees in the next (2015-2017) budget.
The public and media continue to be banned from attending the negotiations. Additionally, making matters worse, Jay Inslee has yet to comply with state law by consulting with the “legislative committee [the Joint Select Committee of Employment Relations (JCER)] created in the same law that authorized closed door contract negotiations.”
According to the Washington Policy Center (WPC), Inslee is not the first Democrat to ignore this particular state law. Legislative consultation has not taken place “since the law went into effect in 2002.” Senator Jim Honeyford, the longest serving member of the JCER, says he has “never been consulted by a Governor during secret contract negotiations.”
Honeyford told the WPC, “I believe that labor negotiations should be transparent and one part of that transparency should be the consultation with the legislative committee as required by law.” Following through on his belief, Honeyford is co-sponsoring a Senate Bill that would require public employee collective bargaining sessions to be open meetings (SB 6183).
In the meantime, the Freedom Foundation “is hoping the Governor and state unions will see the light and let the public monitor the process.” The group is pushing that hope by organizing “a “Public Money, Public Meetings” protest from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. at the Tivoli Fountain on the east side of the Washington State Capitol Campus. You can find more information here.
Of course, while the protest is open to the public, the meetings between the Governor and his campaign donors in the public employee unions are still private.
If they can recall bad cars, we should be able to recall bad politicians.
King County liberals and fraud put this halfwit in office, so King County liberals and fraud would make sure he survives a recall.
Inslee ran as a Demorat and was elected by demorats. The only Governor who truly ran our State with true purpose was Dan Evans whom everyone voted for and all supported. Republicans as well as real Democrats and not these new Socialist Democrats we have now
We ALL supported Evans ???
HAHAHHHAAHA ! Senile, right ?
Must be nice to walk around like a fucking punk you fruit fly fucker. P.S. This will no doubt get me banned fuckhead
Poor old guy….. We see who’s the fruit fly.
Is the word “fact” absent from your vocabulary or did you simply forget the definition ?
Repubs voted supported “collective bargaining” in this form in exchange to privatizing many state jobs and things like the mega-project design build jobs that are screwing everything up at WSDOT. And now you are complaining that closed-door negotiations are illegal? The law was written this way! Dolts!
I’m happy to get rid of this form of collective begging. It sucks.
Inslee is a leftist progressive goat. The Dems want to destroy America. Wake up people the Dems are a political socialist machine out to destroy all of our freedoms. God forbid any other Dems are voted in. Corruption abounds, goats intent on killing us, idiots will end up killing themselves.
Impeach Inslee if he is breaking state law, get out we in Pierce County didn’t vote you in. Get gone already socialistic goat!