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This year Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen gave state agency employees a minimum 3 percent across the board raise. With an additional $21.1 million that went to address salary compression, many agency employees saw over a 7 percent increase in pay. (Source: TSEA)

Meanwhile, the 40 percent of University of Tennessee hourly employees making poverty level wages only saw only a $600 increase. Additionally, the vast majority of UT faculty members did not even receive the minimum 2 percent raise afforded to all other higher education workers (with many seeing nothing more than a mere 1 percent raise). This meant that the raises of many UT faculty members were even less than the $600 minimum all UT staff received. It is clear that higher education employees got the leftovers.

Tennessee’s higher education workers excel at the education of thousands of Tennessee’s brightest students, and take a tremendous amount of pride in delivering this important public service. We deserve real cost of living raises and salaries that meet our basic needs. We at least deserve parity in pay and raises with other state workers.

Please contact Governor Bredesen and ask him to ensure a real cost of living raise tied to the consumer price index for all higher education workers in his next budget. You can send the letter below by filling out your contact information on the left side of the screen. Addtionally, you can modify the letter to include your own comments.

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