Posted on 02/14/2010 11:07:55 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009
According to figures released by the transport ministry last week, 135 controllers earned more than 600,000 euros (830,000 US dollars) per year while 713 earned between 360,000 and 540,000 euros.
By comparison Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earns just under 92,000 euros a year while the average salary in Spain is just over 18,000 euros per year, according to government figures.
In addition, the controllers can retire at the age of 52.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Where's Reagan when ya need him???
The PATCO people who read this, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Union, must be green with envy. Time to bring in the Army like Ronnie Reagan and fire them all.
That’s where ours’d be if not for the Gipper.
I wonder what the average is in the EU that they will be cut to?
From the article,” The union representing the controllers said it would take legal action to defend their existing collective agreement.
Despite their high pay, the controllers staged a work-to-rule protest at the end of 2009 which caused flight delays during the busy Christmas period. “
I guess the union has no choice but to try and defend the indefensible. The idea they staged a slowdown while making abusd salaries shows how stupid they are. If i was vastly overpaid i’d make sure i was never noticed.
Bookmark.
Zapatero is not worth one EURO.
The brains in Spain are mainly in the drain.
Oh, he didn't fire them. They quit.
Rome burns, we argue over the benefits and never see the real expenses.
You don’t suppose that they were Union Members?
I read somewhere it's about $200 - $250K (in Euros of course). Even after their outrageous taxes that's still a lot of money.
The job isn't that hard or that stressful.
There is a good reason why Chevy Chase, MD is one of the wealthiest towns in the US, while Fairfax and Loudon Counties on the other side of the Potomac are now the wealthiest in the country: the state pays very well these days.
If there is a silver lining to this world wide economic crisis it is that the average citizen is begining to see that unions in general and public employee unions in particular are not good for the rest of us.
Will these hard times bring down public employee unions? I am beginning to get hope that it will.
Putting my yet to be conceived grandchildren on the waiting list for those jobs. The line has to be that long.
My guess is Spain has a pathetic military thus does not have a large pool of people to train as civilian air traffic controllers. Non-military people could be trained from the bottom up.....
At any rate this is the most egregious rip off of the tax-payer by public sector employees that I’ve ever seen. This takes the prize especially since it’s a large group of people
I heard EU “average” is STILL around a quarter of a million $$$ per year.
And did you see the they seem to be allowed to “negotiate” salaries with ... wait for it ... themselves?
Geeeee I wonder how they managed to fix it so that they get $800,000 a year in pay (was $1,000,000 when Euro was higher).
NO union employees at all in any government - they are all vampire squids who don’t even bother to work.
Let ‘em go destroy a few more private companies, like PanAm, Eastern, GM, etc.
Think “Patty and Selma” ...........
The brains in Spain are mainly in the drain.
Man, I laughed.
The brains in Spain are mainly in the drain.
Just had to hear it again......
Thanks ... for some reason that just popped into my head.
It’s true they earn too much, but so is Spain, a country were few privileged have earned a lot of money in the real estate and green energy bubbles whilst the majority is getting poorer.
The news are just another attempt of Zapatero’s government to distract the Spanish people from their inability of facing the country’s problems.
Will these hard times bring down public employee unions? I am beginning to get hope that it will.
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These contracts will only get renegotiated when a particular county or state gov’t goes bankrupt. Many out of sight pensions have been fraudulently negotiated. Some pensions are being received right now. The only those get ratcheted down is when a county or state declares bankruptcy or something very close to that. They may choose the later, an orderly negotiated lite-bankruptcy, in order to keep their ability to float bonds
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