MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - The 2024 MOU included pay increases in 2025-26 of (1)  between 4  percent and 5  percent for employees at the top step of their classification ’s salary range and (2)  3  percent for employees not at the top step of their classification ’s salary range.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Dills Act. Collective bargaining between the Governor and the state ’s rank-and-file employees (organized into 21 bargaining units) is governed by the Ralph C. Dills Act (Dills Act). The product of negotiations at the bargaining table is a labor agreement referred to as a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Jul 14, 2025 - OPEB = Other Post ‑Employment Benefits and Local 1000 = Nine bargaining units represented by Service Employee International Union, Local 1000: Units 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21. Telework Stipend.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - Unit 8 rank-and-file, managerial, and supervisorial employees account for less than 4  percent of the total FTE in the state workforce and about 4  percent of the state ’s General Fund payroll expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - For example, while CalHR found that total compensation for Unit 12 highway maintenance workers was 3  percent above the statewide market rates, CalHR found that Unit 12 highway maintenance workers ’ total compensation lagged total compensation of similar employees in the San Francisco Bay Area by 27  percent, in San Diego County by 4  percent, in the Sacramento Region by 4  percent, and the Los Angeles Region by 1  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Specifically, for the duration of PLP 2025 (meaning in both 2025-26 and 2026-27) the state would not make its 4  percent of pay contribution to prefund Unit 6 retiree health benefits. The agreement would continue to require employees to make their 4  percent of pay contribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Administration Assumes Annual GSI of 4  Percent During Term of Agreement. The administration ’s fiscal estimates assume that the result of the salary survey would increase Unit 5 base pay by 4  percent in 2024-25, 3.9  percent in 2025-26, and 4  percent in 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Notwithstanding Section 19829.5, Section 11 of Chapter  25 provided legislative ratification of any labor agreement that (1)  was entered into by the state employer and a state bargaining unit between June 21, 2025 and June 30, 2025 and (2)  included savings measures to achieve budgeted reductions pursuant to Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 Budget Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Sep 7, 2023 - Although future addenda or side letters may be established to address unforeseen issues that might materialize during the term of the MOU, the addenda review process established under Item 9800 of the annual budget act defers more authority to the Governor than the MOU ratification process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4799

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Sep 1, 2023 - The Public Employees ’ Pension Reform Act (PEPRA) established a standard, but not a requirement, that employees and the state each contribute one-half of the normal cost to fund employee pension benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4798