No, genius, almost none of my benefits were ever negotiated with a union.   The only time I ever worked union with the State was in '95-96 and '99 - 02 when we unionized the State's labor relations office to protect it from the Knowles Administration that had promised the unions they would fire us and replace us with union vetted employees - notwithstanding the fact that we were all classified, merit system employees, not political appointees, but then laws don't apply to Democrats   PERS predates collective bargaining by over a decade and the State has always adamantly refused to bargain PERS.   The leave system mostly predates bargaining and the personal leave scheme is a product of statute that we pretty much forced the unions into.   The State's pay schemes mostly go back to Statehood and I was always on the statutory scheme except for that period I was in the Confidential Unit discussed above.