Posted on 08/04/2008 8:14:34 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
The School District in the City of Madison, Ohio will save $300,000 each year for the next 5 years by privatizing their school busses. Naturally, the union is trying to stop this savings by taking the city to court.
Apparently, the union contract for the school busses ran out and the city decided to privatize the system instead of continue with the union. Of course, this is a long term savings, too. It eliminates the healthcare costs and pension costs to the city, as well.
All good policy decisions, to be sure. Saving the tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.
Naturally, the union is upset and are trying to take the city to court.
See the rest at Publiusforum.c9om...
I’m tapped out with unions. I can’t afford them anymore.
Many school districts across the country have privately owned bus systems. I went to school in a privately owned bus..............
What’s so special about this? I live in New York. The public sector unions run the state. Every cost-cutting measure is met with a lawsuit from the unions. Nothing gets done.
Yikes! Even the People’s Weekly World covers the facts of the case!
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/13472/
Unions have always been extremely reactionary, what would you expect?
Back in the 80s I worked for a while at a local unionized supermarket and was required to join UFCW.
The union newsletter was a reliable rant against scanning technology, because of the jobs pricing the merchandise would be going out the door and out of the union.
Got to just stand up to this reaction, unfortunately school boards don’t have a profit motive and its really easy for them to cave.
Longer story @ http://www.starbeacon.com/local/local_story_213030553.html
“The union newsletter was a reliable rant against scanning technology”
Good grief!
The Democratic Party has once again become an anachronism, a party with a romantic longing for a past that’s long gone.
Sorry Unions but if a CITY WANTS to save $$$ they should. Ask the taxpayers if they should NOT waste $$$. They (the City taxpayers) will say PRIVATIZE!!
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