Time to destroy the evil heart of the Occupying Enemy Forces. Waste them. Its crunch time.
Posted on 02/27/2011 7:13:18 AM PST by tobyhill
The ongoing budget stalemate in Wisconsin threatened to jeopardize as many as 12,000 public-sector jobs beginning next week as Democrats in the state Senate continued to abandon their jobs.
Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican whose plan to cut nearly all public employees' collective bargaining rights remains in limbo, said Friday that he didn't want to see layoffs, but insisted that if the bill is not passed by the end of next week, his administration would have to start preparing layoff notices for as many as 1,500 state employees.
They would be laid off by July in order to achieve the savings necessary to balance the budget, with another 6,000 layoffs by the middle of 2013, with an equal number on the local level.
At the same time, Wisconsin school districts are warning teachers that their contracts might not be renewed because if Walker's bill becomes law, it would void current teacher collective bargaining agreements that lay out protocol and deadlines for conducting layoffs.
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Outstanding! It's about time!!
What is the downside? When one side breaks the social contract can the other side stop paying taxes?
Unions do NOT care about the collective whole. They care about keeping the wages & benefits up there. The will sacrifice a few to keep their puff wages and benefits. If you are in a union you are expendable.
The Governor should layoff 1000 workers every Monday, every week until the Rats return and vote on the bill that actually saves jobs.
Unions always brag about the “on-average” value of negotiated deals.
My mother works in a mixed union/non-union Wisconsin school. She is locked out of the union - gets 8.00/hr for doing the same job as the union people right next to here at 25/hr with vacations and benefits. She gets no healthcare and only a 2% match on pension. The union people doing the same job get full ride healthcare and 13% contribution to pension.
The fallacy of Wisconsin public workers’ unions is that they stand up for workers. At best its a clique and a racket. They don’t give a rip about the greater good, even within their own offices - it’s me, me, me all the way - screw everyone else and screw the taxpayers.
They don”t really care about wages. What they do care about is collecting DUES from every one of their members, and if the wages do increase their dues go up.
Time to destroy the evil heart of the Occupying Enemy Forces. Waste them. Its crunch time.
12000 jobs sounds like a lot, but compare it to the number of new jobless claims posted every week. It’s a fraction of one day’s jobless claims,...almost every one in the private sector.
Excuse my nosiness, but why is your mother “locked out” of the union?
My wife makes about $8 / hr teaching pre-k in GA.
Does anyone know how much an average union member pays in dues per month?
And I’ll be willing to BET that people will survive very nicely with 12,000 fewer bureaucrats and civil “servants.”
Only to the point, as in this instance where the union would rather sacrifice jobs than compromise on benefits, that it does not conflict with what any union sees as its primary responsibility: The preservation of the union.
40 years worth of dues I paid way too much.
In the later years ,the last thirty, the dues were a % of earnings, just like taxes.
However w/ Beck vs CWA you can now demand POLITICAL money refunds. Mine was about $150.00 a year.
That’s 150 they didn’t have to bus ride, coerce, and intimidate folks, so eff them.
Every time “education” demands more money they hire more administrators and build admin buildings. Around here they demanded more money they built a fancy high school complete with polished granite interiors. Not even corporate offices are so lavishly decorated.
Education could easily be cut by 80% and the education would only increase as the education system started to focus on teaching instead of gluttony of taxpayer money.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
When I was in grade school, you had the prinicipal of the school, who also teached the upper grade.
My sons in school, had a principal, superintendent and I think one more manager, none of whom taught any classes, but collectively they made more money than all the teachers who did teach.
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