It’s just amazing. People in the Union in the auto world make on average of $70.00 an hour and when laid off; get to come into work; sign in and play crosswords or whatever; still receiving half their pay and all of their benfits.”
some clarification:
The “$70 per hour” figure includes all health insurance, pensions, sick pay, vacation pay, and holiday pay.
When they are laid off and placed into the “job banks”, they receive 95% of their take home pay, not half.
That’s what I have heard; however, Rush was saying there was only a $2.00 difference.
They bitch when the gov even considers lowering it a fraction of a point, and each day I hear sickening yadi yadas from some school big cheese saying the children are starving and being taught in caves with candle light and no central heat or air, and used stone tablets to read from....and because of these things they need more, yes more!!