L.A. County union workers win largest pay increase in decades (15.5% pay increse & health benefits)

Daily Bulletin ^ | 10/22/06 | Troy Anderson

[Joan Kerrey]

How much more, if any, is that than the increase in the cost of living?

Keep in mind there are MANY more benefits that most California city and county employees get. One of them is a very liberal retirement system. Some can retire at 50 with 3/4 pay and healthcare for life which includes drug benefits. Many have very liberal work rules, flex days off, accumulated vacation, sick and flex days so that a good worker could retire and be paid the equiv. of a year or more in pay. They can't be fired, it's hard to even discipline them and workers comp fraud runs rampant in the state.

[Clemenza]

A man who REALLY knew how to deal with unions:

[Joan Kerrey]

The median state income is $34,000K a year.

It would be difficult to find a single county worker anywhere in California who makes less than $34,000 per year.
I think it'd be difficult to find any country worker in the entire state making less than $40,000 per year.

Show me and I'll believe it. I live in California, know many clerk level city and state workers and ALL of them make $50,000 or more plus plus plus benefits, retirement, health etc. Please stop this "poor county worker" routine on me.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Man you got that right. Tyler's words are so true.
But it's all good. The feces is going to hit the fan anyway.

[nmh]

New Jersey is getting just as bad. We have a 7% sales tax and the clown wants to raise it to 8% next year. He's waffling alittle on that one ... he'd rather have the counties do the taxing and not him to pay for state benefits and over priced, lazy state workers and all the "social services". It's sickening.

[VeniVidiVici]

Medicaid, county run nursing homes, schools, public health services

Besides Medicaid, I'd honestly have to check to see if we have any of the others. I know we don't have school nurses.