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40,000 Illinois State Workers To Get 14% Payraises
Fox/Chicago ^
| 07 Jul 2010,
| Mike Flannery, FOX Chicago News
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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: illinois; roadtosocialism; socialismishere; suckers; unions; unionthugs
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posted on
07/08/2010 5:06:04 AM PDT
by
Leisler
To: Leisler
they need to be brought into the real world....1.4 would be more fair
2
posted on
07/08/2010 5:07:12 AM PDT
by
The Wizard
(Madam President is my President now and in the future)
To: The Wizard
0bamao ensuring union loyalty with our TARP money.
3
posted on
07/08/2010 5:08:29 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(The usurper 0bama regime is a "Clear and Present Danger" to AMERICA! - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: Leisler
The government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
4
posted on
07/08/2010 5:10:48 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: Leisler
AND YOU THINK THIS CAN BE CORRECTED THROUGH ELECTIONS??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5
posted on
07/08/2010 5:13:25 AM PDT
by
carolinacrazy
(Bow to your sensei.... BOW TO YOUR SENSEI...... www.jackassdemocrats.com)
To: Leisler
Remember this when, over the course of the next two years, these Democrat-run hellholes come to the federal government (that is, YOU the TAXPAYER) to bail out these public-sector workers and unions.
To: Leisler
Of course, Illinois is also begging for Federal bailouts. They think the whole country deserves the privilege of supporting their State workers in lavish wages and benefits.
To: The Wizard
they need to be brought into the real world....1.4 would be more fair Last year my company cut salaries by as much as 30% for some people. We're getting no raises this year. That's the real world - no raises or salary cuts.
To: Leisler
And the brain-dead voters of Illinois will vote these same democrats back into office again...and again...and again...and again...
9
posted on
07/08/2010 5:16:57 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
To: Leisler
OUT OF TOUCH!
10
posted on
07/08/2010 5:17:11 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
To: carolinacrazy
Elections will NOT fix this nation at this point. May be unpopula to say it, but when you have an admin who pushes everything which is opposed by 60% of the people, and you get cities doing things like this, someone please tell me why we split off from Britain?
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posted on
07/08/2010 5:19:04 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
To: The Wizard
My husband is a NERES (non-union represented) state employee up here in MI. I can’t remember the last time he had a raise; last year his pay was reduced by 10% all summer and our idiotic governor and legislature raised the income tax. It’s not a complaint, since so many people have lost their jobs we feel blessed.
The unionized state employees got their raise. The aforementioned idiots wouldn’t muster the backbone to vote to rescind it.
But 14%????? That’s insane. Suicidal. Deranged!
12
posted on
07/08/2010 5:20:09 AM PDT
by
Kieri
(The Conservatrarian)
To: carolinacrazy
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posted on
07/08/2010 5:22:00 AM PDT
by
thecabal
(Destroy Progressivism)
To: reagan_fanatic
And the brain-dead voters of Illinois will vote these same democrats back into office again...and again...and again...and again...Well you've got 40,000 bought and paid for votes right there.
14
posted on
07/08/2010 5:24:02 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: Leisler
From Link : “
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...”I'm outraged,” said State Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno. “It's very difficult to buy this rhetoric that, ‘We need to borrow, we need increased revenue,’ when these kind of poor management decisions are going on.”...The union argues that the state needs to raise taxes. AFSCME’s chief negotiator in Illinois, Union International Vice President Henry L. Bayer, responded to Radogno....”I'm outraged Sen. Radogno and her fellow Republicans have done nothing to help solve the state's financial problem, Bayer said. “ Where would she cut $9 billion? It can't be done with just cuts. We need more revenue.” Bayer and other union leaders strongly support tax increases....The contractual raises are now legally locked in. Any roll back could come only with the union's agreement...A threat of massive layoffs would be the most likely source of leverage for any future state official wanting to re-open the union contract” At :
40,000 Illinois (unionized ) State Workers To Get 14% Payraises Classic model of the public servants becoming the taxpayers masters. If you saw Michael Moore's movie Sicko he tells the audience that they need to demand more ‘free’ public services, that us demanding government services is the purpose of us having a vote. Unfortunately too many, minorities even more-so than whites, believe this Moore line of flawed rational. But the endgame is always government employee unions holding the taxpayers hostage to massive cuts in those services that we were told were a right.
If they are a 'right' then cut the government employee's pay. Get rid of those unions.
15
posted on
07/08/2010 5:26:37 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
To: Red in Blue PA
If elections won’t fix it the people themselves are broken. And the optimist in me says the majority are not.
To: The Wizard
1.4 is too good....
give 25% salary cuts like we got hit with where i work so the company could make it thru the hard period....
To: Non-Sequitur
same here...25% and all middle managers gone.....
they told us that maybe come oct they can start to give back....i pray they can as it sucks having to make up that 25% out of savings each month just for the nessacery needs...
To: Leisler
"at a cost of half a billion dollars." Hmmm!
OK, let them keep their raise. But, sort the unionized work force in decending order by salary then start laying them off until you've reached half a billion dollars. Then add a few more as a fudge factor.
Works for me!
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posted on
07/08/2010 5:37:05 AM PDT
by
Renkluaf
To: Leisler
Let me see, my salary raise in the last four years...0%.
LET ‘EM SUCK IT UP!!!
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