-05/06/26

General Wage Increases and Back Pay:  Now that the contract is complete and there is a 2.5% GWI & Step/TSP due retroactive to 2025, everyone wants to know when this money will hit their paychecks.  This will be completed in two phases: First will be a change to your hourly rate/step and the second phase will be your back-pay.  We expect that the 2025 GWI and Step will be applied first and is targeted to be in your June 12 paycheck.  Once the GWI and Steps are applied, then the back pay is no longer accruing and it gives payroll units the ability to calculate each individual's back pay

An impressive number of outstanding applications were submitted this year, and we are proud to announce our 2026 A&R Scholarship recipients
A giant thank you to the wonderful volunteers on our Scholarship Cmte for all the effort and thought they put in again this year.

This year's winners are as follows (parent in parentheses):

Harry Zilber Scholarship - $2,500     Ariona Bako Dishnica  (Olsa Dishnica – DMV)
Mike Winkler Scholarship - $2,500     Adriana Buccheri     (Ashley Gustafson – OHS)

High School
$1,500  Simon Salinas (Mariela Salina – DOC)
$1,500  Gabriella Bourdon (Sarah Bogdanski-Bourdon –

-4/30/25

The Senate has passed our contract by a vote of 26 Yes, 10 No
All 25 Democratic Senators and 1 Republican Senator (Sen John Kissell of Enfield) voted in favor of the contract.   

View the Senate Vote Tally Sheet

Later that Wednesday evening, the House passed our contract with a vote of 107 Yes, 42 No...All 101 Democrats voted in favor and 6 Republicans voted in favor.

View the House Vote Tally Sheet

This was the final step in a long journey!!  The pursuit of our successor agreement has concluded and we now have our new contract!

The wage changes and the entire contract are in effect

-4/27/26 Updated with Vote Tally Sheets

It was a party-line vote in the Approps Cmte.

          Vote - Senate side of Appropriations Cmte 

          Vote - House side of Appropriations Cmte 

Full floor votes in the House and Senate should be this week...call your Rep & Senator.
Find your Rep/Senator

-4/24/26

The Appropriations Cmte held a public hearing on Senate Resolution 12 and House Resolution 12 this morning.  Those resolutions represent our A&R Contract.  Although the committee voting is still open until 3PM today, the vote appears to be favorable on both the House side of the Appropriations

-Update 4/17/26

HR12 & SR12 (our Contract/SEBAC Framework) is scheduled for a public hearing in the Appropriations Cmte on Friday April 24 at 9:30.

-Update 4/15/26

Our contract has officially been assigned legislative resolution numbers: HR12 in the House and SR12 in the Senate. Both resolutions are required to approve the agreement between the State and SEBAC, which includes our contract as part of the broader SEBAC framework covering multiple unions.

At this time, it appears these resolutions may not reach the Appropriations Committee until late next week or possibly the following week (April 24

The Contract Ratification Vote has ended and the results are as follows: 2300 votes were cast with 2266 "Yes" votes to 28 "No" votes and 6 abstained.  This is a 98.5% Yes response with a 71% voter turnout.  Congratulations, we have ratified our contract which will run from July 1, 2025 thru June 30, 2029 and include a wage re-opener for July 1, 2028.

We can now thank all of the A&R members who joined in to be members of the A&R Negotiations Cmte along with Chief Negotiator Rhonda Tillman for getting us to this point.  This was a long process that began way back in the summer of 2024 when we