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Some VSEA members seek clarification on candidate’s plan to save $40 million through DOC savings.

The wage gap becomes more significant at higher-paid professional levels. The lowest paid government workers do earn slightly more than their private counterparts (in other words, the state tends to pay its lowest-wage workers better than, for example, Wal-Mart does), but for engineers, professors, and the like, the wage penalty for working for a "New England state or local governments rises to almost 13%. These wage differences are also found across workers with different levels of education: high school graduates in the state and local sector in New England, for example, have a small wage premium (less than 2%) relative to the private sector, while those with bachelor’s degrees experience a wage penalty of 7%."

At a press conference at VSEA HQ today, the union announced its support for Peter Shumlin for Governor!

"But even if it works flawlessly – and as of July, where nearly $10 million of savings is coming from had not yet been identified – there will remain a roughly $112 million gap between expected revenues and expenses in the state’s main General Fund."

Uh Oh!

"Transfer of servers from agencies to IBM was supposed to be finished in December 2009, but is less than 12 percent complete, according to the DIR. Just five agencies are completely consolidated, and consolidation efforts are under way in only five more…"