“State employees will be mad as hell,” about new Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s proposal to take away the pay raise that state and university employees had already gotten, said AFSCME Maryland Council 3’s Jeff Pittman...
“When he asked for our votes he said he wanted to eliminate ‘waste, fraud, and abuse’, not takeaway pay from hard-working, middle class correctional officers, hospital workers and snow plow-drivers,” said AFSCME Maryland. Hogan said he wants to cut the 2% COLA that went into effect on January 1 as well as the planned 2016 step increase.