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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - The Legislature ratified the current Unit 8 MOU through Chapter 1001 of 2024 (AB 181, Committee on Budget). The ratified MOU is scheduled to remain in effect through June 30, 2026. Our analysis of the ratified agreement can be found here .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - The current form of the budget deal between the two houses of the Legislature and the Governor ( AB 102, Gabriel ) assumes that state employee compensation will be reduced in 2025-26. Control Section 3.90 specifies that “the Legislature finds that the savings will likely be needed to maintain the sound fiscal condition of the state.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Following a recommendation from our office, Chapter 39 of 2023 (AB 130, Committee on Budget) amended Section 19826 of the Government Code to establish a regularly occurring cycle so that a new compensation study for each bargaining unit would be released every two years, regardless of the status of its MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058