Posted on 07/08/2010 5:06:01 AM PDT by Leisler
Springfield, Ill. - More than 40,000 unionized state workers got a pay raise last Thursday, bringing to 7 percent the amount they're gotten since last year. These same state employees are in line for another 7 percent by next July 1, all at a cost of a half-billion tax dollars a year.
It's more than the virtually bankrupt state can afford, and some Republican lawmakers say the raises need to be rolled back.
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Bolshevik state capitalism just like the old USSR. The privileged class were public employees.
Raise? Most of us are lucky to still have a job!
And that always confuses the Peters too.
Waiting for the November 2012 election (and, even, waiting for the November 2010 election) won’t undo ALL of the leftist legislation that’s already put into place as law. Actually undoing bad legislation (even all bad legislation long before Obama was POTUS, onwards) and then replacing it all with decent, conservative, free market solutions on all of the issues will be necessary, if the U.S. is ever going to return to being a conservative, capitalistic country again for the long-term. The leftists of the present and future will win, as long as leftist legislation stays in place, for the long-term.
I will definitely avoid buying or using anything I possibly can that is connected to a union.
What elections?
None that will be legitimate, anyway. There’s no way they are going to risk losing power and I believe that they’ll resort to anything to keep it.
please excuse my rant in post #98, I should not have directed such at you for stating the obvious.
I am sorry to have taken my frustration on you, the voters in this state allow this level of corruption.
Full benefits, defined pensions, in by 9 out by 3, no heavy lifting, do in a week what your private sector counterpart does in a day..
....every paid holiday, vacations, comp time....
They’re doing the CODING that Americans won’t do /s
I can’t WAIT to move out of New York State (hey that’s a good slogan)
I can’t WAIT to move out of New York State (hey that’s a good slogan)
PE teachers making about 100k! This is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Cut salaries 50% for anyone in the 100k + range and the budget problem is fixed. They could never ever get such a salary in the private sector. As someone else said this is Bolshevism with us proles slaving to pay these lavish salaries & benefits.
PE teachers making about 100k! This is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Cut salaries 50% for anyone in the 100k + range and the budget problem is fixed. They could never ever get such a salary in the private sector. As someone else said this is Bolshevism with us proles slaving to pay these lavish salaries & benefits.
I work for a $50MM+ annually in sales company currently with 153 employees...eff. January 1 this year, there was a freeze on salary increases, company contributions to 401K, and the president/CEO took a 20% cut in pay. We’re holding our own for now; hoping and praying we reach our ROE goal by 30 Sept. to get our bonuses on 1 Dec. It astounds me to know of how much the private sector has had to cut back to make ends meet, but is not done in local/state/federal govnment spending. It’s like another poster said on this thread...”And elections are going to change that?!!!” Doubtful.
Someone needs to file an Anti-Trust Act suit against government unions. There is NO competition- it is like a perpetual no-bid contract.
I think we are getting a very real glimpse into the future. Illinois knows that there will absolutely have to be a government bailout, probably in the next two years. So, why not go ahead a raise the stakes right now - more to get out of the bailout when it comes!
They bought out the company I originally work for about 2 years ago and I now work for a $120B+ plus company which has made a considerable profit every year. However, it hasn't made as much as it wanted, so there have been no pay raises for several years, no promotions, no bonuses to speak of, and 401K matching is no longer automatic. That is in addition to the 5% across the board pay cut, the additional 10% pay cut for one month for my division, the 'salary readjustment to bring us in line with corporate norms' that cost some people as much as an additional 25% cut in salary. There has been some talk about salary adjustments this year to bring compensation back in line with local averages, but only for off shore employees.
There is a humorous aspect to all this. In an incredible sense of timing, the company chose the month after the big salary readjustments to issue it's annual employee attitude survey. When they announced the results they seemed truly puzzled that so few people participated and so many of those that did were dissatisfied. Can they be that clueless?
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