It just illustrates why Governor Walker is right to reform public unions bargaining rights to limit them to wages only. So that no more “deferred compensation” punting can occur.
Lets not pretend that union leadership wasn’t sitting on both sides of the bargaining table, buying politicians with fat campaign contributions to get these golden parachutes worth far more than the compensation they were giving up in exchange.
We’re broke, the party is over.
-—Lets not pretend that union leadership wasn’t sitting on both sides of the bargaining table-—
This has been demonstrated by events in Wisconsin. Several local governments and school boards have hurried and completed contract negotiations so that they don’t have to incorporate Walker’s changes. He’s giving these bodies to negotiate to lower costs and they are saying - screw you, we want to pay our teachers at this level’.