EMPAC, the political arm of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, presented Rep. Pat Hurley (R-Randolph) with the Lisa B. Mitchell Legislator of the Year award Saturday for advocating for state employees and retirees during the recent legislative short session.
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The State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) today announces bipartisan endorsements for the general election in November. The endorsements are made through SEANC’s Employees Political Action Committee (EMPAC), which is a member-led subsidiary.
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SEANC will join the N.C. Institute of Political Leadership in sponsoring three debates around the state featuring candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general and state treasurer in September.
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The statewide committee of EMPAC, the political arm of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, announced today its endorsements for nine Council of State seats.
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The statewide committee of EMPAC, the political arm of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, voted recently to endorse Roy Cooper for Governor of North Carolina.
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, SEANC Lobbyist Flint Benson spoke out last week at a Retirement Systems Board of Trustees meeting on several issues. Benson, a former SEANC president and retired state employee himself, took particular offense to the comment from a retirement system official that the system was in good shape because it doesn’t hand out cost-of-living adjustments “willy-nilly.” In his remarks, he set the record straight.
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The General Assembly went home last Friday after a whirlwind day that stretched right up to midnight, with a flurry of bills being passed up until the final gavel.
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The 2016 short session of the General Assembly is all but complete. After agreeing to state budget adjustments for the coming year, Senate leaders offered an adjournment resolution for Saturday.
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The General Assembly announced last night its compromise on the state budget for the coming year, and the news is a mixed bag for state employees and retirees that stops well short of fully addressing the fact that we keep falling further behind each year.
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Budget negotiations are almost complete. Legislators are getting antsy, and the only thing holding them back from going home are state employee raises and retiree cost-of-living adjustments.
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