State quietly gave larger raises to non-union managers

More than 3,000 management employees in state government received pay increases of 9 or 11.7 percent in the past year while union workers got raises of 2.5 percent. Mostly enacted through a new step added to the pay scale for some employees, bigger paychecks went to about 1 in 5 of the state's 16,948 exempt management employees — typically higher-ranking workers who are not members of labor unions and don't have the same job protection.