CONGRATULATIONS DS1 On Your RAISE!!!

[matcom]

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BOSTON --Thousands of employees at state colleges and universities could get retroactive pay raises after lawmakers voted Tuesday to restore the increases cut by Gov. Mitt Romney.

The House voted 144-0 to override two of Romney's budget vetoes, which provided $42.2 million for one year of retroactive pay raises at the University of Massachusetts and at state and community colleges.

If the Senate follows suit, thousands of employees will get retroactive paychecks in the coming months.

Sen. Steven Panagiotakos, D-Lowell, vice-chair of the Higher Education Committee, said he expected the Senate to quickly follow the House's lead on Wednesday.

"Every day that they wait is justice denied," he said. "They bargained in good faith, it went through the process, and it was hung up by the governor, after the previous governor signed."

The funds that Romney vetoed on Sept. 30 included $30.27 million for unions at the University of Massachusetts and $11.91 million for administrators and staffers at state and community colleges. Romney said he didn't support paying for raises on a retroactive basis.

The raises were in three-year contracts that former acting Gov. Jane M. Swift signed in 2001.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/12/lawmakers_move_to_restore_pay_raises_for_higher_education?mode=PF

[StopTheMorans]

1. his Cialis finally kicked in, hey?

[Shell Beau]

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