MADISON - The state Senate has approved a raise for state troopers and a new compensation plan for other state workers but has delayed debate on the state budget.
The Senate's Tuesday agenda included the budget, a bill that would give the troopers a six percent raise, and a bill laying out a new two-year compensation plan for 31,000 other state workers that includes no general wage increases.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker pushed through a state law in 2011 that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers over anything beyond wage increases to account for inflation. The troopers were exempted from the law.
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