Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - As we describe below and list in Figure  1, the Legislature has ratified agreements between the administration and 19 of the state ’s 21 bargaining units. The rank-and-file and excluded employees associated with these 19 bargaining units represent more than 95  percent of the state workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Specifically, the agreement would (1)  remove Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (because the facility was deactivated) from the list of eligible institutions; (2)  add Salinas Valley State Prison to the list of eligible institutions; and (3)  establish that employees hired after September 8, 2025 at Avenal State Prison, Calipatria State Prison, Centinela State Prison, and Ironwood State Prison would not be eligible to receive the payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Public Safety)

Sep 7, 2023 - The most recent (July) California Consumer Price Index was 3.1  percent higher compared to the prior year. Since 2020, however, prices have risen 17  percent. To the extent that the lower real average base pay in 2022 is a reflection of past GSIs not keeping pace with inflation, the tentative agreement ’s GSI in 2023 ‑24 would maintain wages, but would not catch up to prior price increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4802

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The most recent (July) California Consumer Price Index was 3.1  percent higher compared to the prior year. Since 2020, however, prices have risen 17  percent. GSIs provided by prior agreements to Unit  6 did not keep pace with these increases, as noted above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

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

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - (Appendix  2 also includes a list of proposed revenue ‑related  solutions.) In this section, we describe the overall condition of the General Fund budget after accounting for the Governor ’s budget proposals and solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - In 2020-21, the Legislature used Control Section 3.90 to reduce each item of appropriation as appropriate to reflect reductions in employee compensation by a specified dollar amount listed in the control section.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 (SEIU Local 1000)

Sep 7, 2023 - The most recent (July) California Consumer Price Index was 3.1  percent higher compared to the prior year. Since 2020, however, prices have risen 17  percent. GSIs provided by prior agreements to some bargaining units represented by Local 1000 did not keep pace with these increases, as noted above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Inflation has accelerated recently, with prices increasing close to 9  percent over the last year. The consensus among economic forecasts is that inflation will moderate over the next year. However, where inflation is headed over the term of the agreement is unknown.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

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