It's in the Contract. What Contract?

The Flint Journal is reporting on a story that first appeared in Michigan Capitol Confidential about teachers in Linden receiving automatic pay increases as per their contract, even though that contract is expired.

House Bill 4152, which has passed both the House and Senate and awaits Gov. Snyder’s signature, would establish that when a government employee union contract has expired and no replacement has been negotiated, any seniority-based automatic pay hikes for individual employees (“step increases”) may not occur.

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