Wish I had some crumbs to trace my way back.
Yesterday mark rerported on 2 teachers from North Lake School District that retired and started to collect their pension and health benefits have been rehired at their old salaries.
Today, he stated that this is more widespread and could be as high as 1000 teachers.
There has been no mention in the great WI newspaper Milwaukee Journal (sarc) and Belling stated they they could probably get the Pulitzer (again) if they would investigate and report the truth.
Gotta be kickbacks to those making hiring decisions.
Does this mean they get their retirement and a salary?
Wish I had some crumbs to trace my way back.
May I suggest that you hire security and keep a keen eye on your back from now on?
They’re not only being rehired, they’re being rehired to their same positions with their same seniority wages while collecting full pensions.
I listened today...He also wondered if this double dipping phenomena was confined only to school districts...the concern is Wisco public employees may be doing the same thing :(
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I’ve listened to Mark for 16 years.
I am listening again today.
I was glad to hear him say that there is a WI State elected official (of course I can’t remember his name) that called the show off the air today, to say he is drafting legislation to stop this pillaging of our property tax dollars.
I am sick to death of public teachers and their buddies.
Our taxes are punitive. They are becoming a large percentage of our income. They really will tax people out of their homes.
Mark has said all year, that there really is no “low” too “low” for these publicly paid leeches. Retiring and drawing a pension and then getting re-hired by cronies on the school board and getting a full salary at the old pay rate while “retired”.....and then there are the “emeritus” retired public teachers who get paid for 3 years after they retire, for doing nothing. That story was around this spring here on FR too.
These people are ungrateful crooks.
I think it’s happening all over the country. The local or state gov’t considers it a cost saving move because the double dippers only get salary but no additional retirement benefits. The gov’t doesn’t have to pay into the double dippers’ retirement fund because they’re already retired.
“Union scam”??????
I am shocked ...SHOCKED!!!
It’s called “T” drop in Arkansas, been doing this for several years, mostly school Administrators and State mgmt employees.
Great reporting and now Mark Belling needs to go public with the names & addresses of these double dipping scumbag union bastards. I late liberals & demoRATs & unions more every time their filthy names are mentioned. Right up there with my hatred for kenyan commie RAT bastard himself, 0dumb0!!!
This happens in Ohio all the time as well. It’s usually administrators and coaches. The few regular classroom teachers who do it are usually the worst teachers. The good teachers are usually too worn out to keep going.
There are a couple of teachers doing this in my district-Mequon. (a suburb of Milwaukee). This is likely why teachers are retiring at a somewhat increased level. I have some FOIA requests in the pipeline. Assemblyman Duey Stroebel says he’s going to introduce some anti-double dipping legislation.
The other big scam is the amount of overcharging by WEA (teacher union) The teacher’s union forced school districts to accept no-bid contracts for teacher health insurance. Now that we have Walker’s reforms, some districts have saved 300k/yr by dropping WEA insurance. So think of how much money has been wasted over the last 10 years in the state! It’s criminal. We need a state insurance investigation of WEA.
It sounds like they’re trying to lock in their pension benefits before reforms kick in.
The good Mark is too likeable. I'm guessing he won't be doing many more substitutions for Rush.
This is very common, and is more a school board scam than a union scam. Ultimately, the school boards do the hiring.
I think the advantage for the school district is that they don’t have to fund an additional health policy and retirement year.
Union thuggery BUMP!
I don’t know how prevalent this is around the country, but NC used to allow the same thing.
You can imagine the cost of retaining a principal at the 35th year pay scale while he or she was getting retirement based on the average of the three highest paid years.
NC stopped this several years back.