Action Alert: Protect Our Raises!

Legislators are considering cutting our already-negotiated raises and balancing the budget off our backs! If you live in a district with a legislator on the House Appropriations and/or Senate Budget & Taxation Committee, please call them to PROTECT OUR RAISES!

• A sample script is provided below. Please be respectful and feel free to add in a personal story about how cutting our raises would impact you.
• You can find the Delegate and Senator for your legislative district here. Please prioritize calling your Delegate and Senator.
• If you cannot reach your legislator, please leave a message.
• If you have not already sent a letter via our online action, please send one here.

Sample Script

Hello, my name is [Name], and I’m a constituent of Delegate/Senator [Name]. I am a state employee, and I am asking you to PROTECT our negotiated raises. Please do not balance the budget on the backs of state employees. Our wages are already behind inflation, and many of us are behind on step increases. We're struggling to make ends meet. Cutting our raises is short-sighted and will only make our staffing crisis worse.

[Feel free to add a personal story about how cuts would impact you.]

Contact Information - House Appropriations Committee

Contact Information - Senate Budget and Taxation Committee