Posted on 08/29/2011 12:20:07 PM PDT by jazusamo
I am an Adult Education/GED Instructor for our public school system. Another teacher and myself were hired to replace a long time employee who retired with full benefits.
We work 20 hrs per week each. No insurance, pension, holiday pay, sick pay, snow day pay....nothing. We are paid hourly as contract employees. If we don’t work, we don’t get paid. I’ve worked 5 years without any increase in pay. Full time employees get all the benefits mentioned above and across the board raises annually. I’m not complaining. I agreed to work for what I was offered. I just want to point out how right Mr. Sowell is.
The hospitals here hire nurses to work three 12 hr shifts with four days off each week. This means they don’t have to hire three employees to work 8 hr shifts per day. They save on insurance and pension for 1 less employee and the workers don’t mind work 4 extra hrs per day because they get so much time off.
The state and county are hiring cleaning agencies and maintenance people on contract to replace full benefit employees who have left.
If the government is using contract help now, how can they expect private employers to do any different?
Mr. Sowell lives in the real world. The folks in Congress and the White House don’t. Their lifestyles prove they are clueless.
same here at our house
I wish the Congress critters would read this thread on Free Republic!
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