Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Over the next few years, this figure will rise as additional lifetime benefit claims make their way through the SIBTF claims process. Looking ahead, it is entirely possible that outstanding employer SIBTF claims could exceed $20  billion within the next few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - If the agreement is not ratified, that $206.8  million would be invested in the prefunding trust fund and given the next two decades to grow. If the fund averaged an annual return of 5  percent over the next 20 years, the $206.8  million would more than double to nearly $550  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Specifically, the agreement would (1) extend the term of the current MOU by an additional year, (2) permanently increase salaries established under the MOU, and (3) set an expectation that two major policy changes (further reducing the duty week to 56 hours and establishing a DROP for Unit 8) would be discussed between the parties before the next successor MOU negotiated in 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In the short term, initiating a retiree health prefunding arrangement increased state costs; however, over the next several decades, this policy should result in significant savings to the state as the prefunding contributions are invested and compound interest that can be used to offset future state payments towards retiree health premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - (Additionally, the administration ’s proposal to allocate some required Proposition  2 debt payment funding to CalSTRS would prevent added UAO from accruing in 2021 ‑22 and is consistent with our past recommendation.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For  example, in the San Francisco Bay Area alone, a recent study led by the Bay Conservation and Development Commission estimated that with an anticipated four feet of flooding in the region from sea‑level rise over the next 40 to 100 years, 13,000 existing housing units and 104,000 existing job spaces will no longer be usable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Bargaining for a new agreement progressed slowly over the next several months and relations between the administration and the union deteriorated. On September 1, 2023, CAPS membership voted to authorize a strike , allowing the union leadership to call a strike.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918