A move to bring stalled state employee contracts for a vote before the state Legislature failed Thursday, according to an Associated Press report.
State Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, introduced the proposal, which Assembly Republicans struck down. The contracts, which deal with 15 of 19 state employee unions, including the Teachers' Assistants Association, include some raises for which employees have waited for almost two years.
The contracts have already gone through the Legislature's Joint Committee on Employment Relations, which decided the state could not afford the contracts and sent them back to the state Department of Employee Relations for renegotiation.
Black introduced the proposal after hundreds of state employees gathered at the Capitol Monday to protest the delay in their contract approval.
