Are these the kinds of increases YOU are getting in YOUR position in the PRIVATE sector?
The tentative three-year contract, which must be approved by the supervisors and ratified by members of Service Employees International Union, Local 660, would give most union members raises totaling up to 15.5 percent.
The contract also calls for a 10 percent increase in the county's contribution to employee health plans and a benefit that would require the county to pay $75 to $375 a month to help employees pay for child care.
The contract would boost some workers' pay as much as 30 percent and union officials hailed the deal as key to helping the county retain and hire more nurses and help lift workers who now qualify for food stamps out of poverty.
This is the Fantasy half of the equation/ingredients that make Liberals.
Was the question ever raised--Where is the money coming from?
Of course, the answer is THE TAXPAYERS.
Was the idea that ILLEGAL ALIENS do not pay taxes, and that Illegal aliens are a considerable fraction of L A's Population ever mentioned?
So, in their mind, you just award a wage, and there is this well that never goes dry and has unlimited capacity where officials can draw from for wages.
NO wonder 25% of of Los Angeles hs moved to another State
In a few years, you will have to choose which Civil War you want to start first, the one between the legal Americans and the illegal invading aliens, or the one between the private sector which is getting their salary cut or getting laid off, losing their retirement and health care, and watching their taxes, local, state and federal, go out of sight, and the public sector employees who are getting fat raises and cost-of-living adjustments, better health care for life, and cushy retirements, all paid for by those luckless private sector losers.
And the Republicans and Democrats just don't give a damn.
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler
Why does the county hire nurses?
We believe in the union, the worker almighty, creator of overtime wages and more ..
and to the contract for which it exists, unbroken, till we decide to .. screw you, and to you and to it.
Yep .. it's a religion .. services once a month at the hall or bar .. bring your tithe.
This is exactly why I hate unions.
They are greedy and after they manage to intimidate the city or other employers into giving them what they want .. it ends up bankrupting the company or the city.
Good going unions .. you must be proud .. you gained all these wages and when the city runs out of money and starts laying off all those employees - ARE YOU GOING TO PICK UP THE TAB AND KEEP PAYING THEM ..??
This is the very reason the car mfgs went bankrupt - they couldn't continue paying these outrages wages and benefits.
A company goes into business to make a profit - SO THEY CAN EXPAND THEIR BUSINESS - when all the profits are eaten up by wages and benefits - THERE IS NO EXPANSION - there is only downsizing and loss of jobs.
How come people don't get this ..??
California is an expensive place to live. Wages need to be much higher just to survive there. Even a nurse starting at over $60K would not have enough income to buy a modest house! How can one state have such a huge economic disconnect from the rest of the country? $30K per year is below the poverty level? Good Grief!
The $75-$375/month child care credit is uncalled for, and unfair to the employees that don't use it. 10% increase in health care contribution doesn't tell us anything, since we don't know what the county contributes now.
If the employees recieved 5% total increase over the last three years, and are going to receive 15.5% over the next three, that equals 20.5% over six years. That's a bit over 3.4% per year. How much more, if any, is that than the increase in the cost of living?
Well at least Arnold *tried* to loosen the death grip the public employee unions had last year but the voters didn't turn out for him.
Isn't that what GM said back in the 80's?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
LOL!
Just a mind boggling wow!!!
Those kinds of wages in Honduras will pay for a house, full maid service and a full time grounds keeper with plenty of cash left over........
Poverty my ass..........Sounds like the city officials just bought themselves another 4 years of office at tax payers expense....LOL!!!
Real easy to give these big boondoggle pay days when it comes out of the public treasury. Unions do NOT belong in government.
If this was the private sector without a bottomless wallet they would be forcing the business to close it's doors.