Audit to find extent law used
Source: By ADAM WILSON, THE OLYMPIAN (WA), August 3, 2006
The Legislature has launched an audit of the state's use of a law allowing contracts with private companies. …… The ability to hire private firms to provide services to the public - called competitive contracting or contracting out - was part of the Personnel Reform Act of 2002. …. State workers unions have fought against contracting out by filing grievances with the Public Employment Relations Commission and challenging the proposed rules for the process. The largest state workers union, the Washington Federation of State Employees, has argued that any contracting out must be negotiated with the union.