Washington Education Ass'n v. Department of Retirement Systems

¶1 The Washington Department of Retirement Systems (DRS) and the State of Washington petition for review of an order granting summary judgment to a class of public employee unions and unaffiliated employees and holding that the 2011 repeal of legislation granting future uniform cost of living adjustments (UCOLA) to the respondents’ monthly pension payments was an unconstitutional impairment of the State’s contractual obligation with its employees. We disagree because the legislature reserved its right to repeal the pension rights at issue and the original *237enactment of UCOLA did not impair any…