Gov. Scott Walker expects the budget repair bill he proposed last Friday to be voted on by the end of this week.

Walker’s bill, intended to help the $3.6 billion budget deficit the state faces, would remove state and local government employee’s ability to collectively bargain everything except their wages, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The changes would apply to all public sector workers in Wisconsin with the exception of municipal, county and and state police and fire departments. Local departments would not be exempt.

UW-Whitewater faculty and staff would take a hit from the proposed bill. It would mean a pay cut in salaries and benefits, Chancellor Richard Telfer said.

“Walker has indicated that there is a budget deficit in this fiscal year, and he’s put together a proposal that would address that budget deficit,” Telfer said. “People are trying to analyze what it means.”

University employees will be asked to pay 5.8 percent of retirement and 12 or 12.6 percent of the cost of insurance benefits, Telfer said. This will also apply to all state employees, according to Walker’s website.

“It’s a cut in the take home pay, not in what their base pay would be,” Telfer said. “Since salaries are quite low in the UW System to start out with, people are understandably concerned about that.”

Although it’s a major concern for faculty and staff, Telfer said he knows it’s a problem that needs to be solved.

“It may or may not be the appropriate thing to do, but what it does is take people who are right now hurting the low median of the institutions and is asking them to take on a greater share of their benefits,” Telfer said.

Multiple rallies are being held across the state in protest of the possible changes.