Wisconsin Officials Rush to Walker-Proof Their Benefits

national review ^ | 3/3/11 | Christian Schneider

[9422WMR]

And if found illegal, these butt-wipe democrats should go to jail.

[org.whodat]

State needs to make laws to bid out school districts to private contractors.

[Bronzy]

We are out of other people’s money. Their socialist scheme has reached rock bottom.

[Tzimisce]

Yep - big scandal.

Any press coverage will focus on the “unfairness” of the people trying to hold these guys’ feet to the fire.

In the end, a bunch of liberal judges will give a couple of guys wrist slaps and the matter will be dropped.

Have a nice day.

[eyedigress]

Three days after the governor introduced his budget, the Milwaukee Area Technical College ratified a new three-year contract that preserves no-cost pensions and contains no layoffs for its teachers (average pay: $95,000.)

Why lay them off. Axe the budget. No Money, No Job.

[JSteff]

may have been collusion

Should have been "was collusion".

[hal ogen]

And nobama said that government were our neighbors and friends. I call them fiends! Fire them all. Jail them. Put them in stocks so we can show our appreciation. Shouldn’t most of these parasitic bloodsuckers be in a jail somewhere?

[Blood of Tyrants]

This just proves that the Rats are more concerned with preserving the unions than representing the people who pay the bills.

[Girlene]

.......Also before Walker took office, the Milwaukee Public School board quickly adopted a four-year teacher contract that runs through 2013. It contains pay increases of 2.5 to 3 percent, and requires teachers to begin contributing to their health insurance for the first time — although in amounts well short of what Walker is proposing (1 percent of salary for single coverage, 2 percent for family). The contract also extends health benefits to domestic partners, which will offset a good portion of the $50 million in savings the district expects to realize from the teachers’ contributions. ........

Oh, for heaven's sake....what a bunch of morons. More teachers will be laid off to pay for domestic partners.

........Instead of having a full complement of teachers paying slightly more for their benefits, they will have fewer teachers, but teachers with jewel-encrusted retirement and health packages. Then they will blame Scott Walker for the massive layoffs their districts will see.......

Pretty sad.

[free me]

bump

[eyedigress]

I sure as heck would let them learn a new socialist awakening, standing in a soup line.

[boop]

Fire the striking teachers and offer to any takers the package the striking teachers WOULD have received. You’d have thousands jumping at the chance.

[digital-olive]

These people need to spend some quality time with Sheriff Joe.

[Girlene]

No teachers are “formally” on strike at this point. Seems they are busy getting their local contracts in order before the states can pass any limits on their bargaining ability with their school district.

Could it be any more clear why the governor was trying to limit the collective bargaining in a state bill. These individual districts have made contracts (for years ahead) that will bust the state’s budget. Teachers will be laid off.

[Marty62]

This is one of the most disgusting example of the collusion between the Unions and the Dummie pols.

All in defiance of the will of the PEOPLE.

The Unions should be brought up on RICO Charges.
That’s how the Feds got their Mob Fathers.

[chickadee]

Please feel free to use the term “collusive bargaining” . . . as often as possible:)

[blam]

Thugs have taken over the government.

Stop paying taxes until sane citizens reclaim the government.

[TV Dinners]

but they won’t.

[quietly desperate]

As long as layoffs follow the LIFO rule, the union membership will not hesitate to throw the younger ones under the bus. The average age of employees in many NYS agencies (where I live), is close to 50.