SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s largest public employee union is recommending that state officials reduce layers of management and insource certain contracted programs.
Those recommendations were among several released by the Service Employees International Union in a state Capitol news conference on Tuesday.
The union says the recommendations would use savings and new revenue to shave about $1 billion off a projected $3.5 billion gap between state revenue and the cost of continuing current services.
Gov. John Kitzhaber released a statement saying he welcomes the union’s recommendations and will ask his staff to identify “promising options for near-term savings.”
The SEIU and state officials are negotiating a new contract and both sides have said it’s certain to include cuts in compensation for state workers.
