Public Employees' Pay, Benefits and Rights Become Campaign Issues

Governing: Candidates for governor don’t typically talk about their plans for the public-sector workforce. Instead, they focus on hot-button issues like taxes, crime and the opioid crisis.

The 2018 races are different.

In a year when teacher strikes, sexual harassment scandals, pension crises and prison staff shortages have jumped into the headlines, HR issues are making their way onto the gubernatorial campaign trail across the nation.

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