PHOENIX (AP) — Three unions have challenged an Arizona budget provision that requires many government workers to make bigger contributions to their retirement benefits while providing employers with corresponding savings.
The lawsuit filed Thursday says the changes to the Arizona State Retirement System violate state constitutional protections for contracts. The filing seeks to retain commitments that it contends were made to individual state and local government employees when they joined the retirement system.
The benefits are not negotiated labor agreements. Arizona does not have collective bargaining for state workers.
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