Posted on 06/05/2021 6:13:01 AM PDT by rktman
Many of the union lifeguards working in Los Angeles County make more money than the governor's $210,000 salary, and the top earners were approaching $400,000, and they can thank a powerful union that took advantage of a noncompetitive contract, according to a new report.
John Miltimore has written at the Foundation for Economic Education that an OpenTheBooks review found the top earner was Fernando Boiteux, who got $291,971 in salary, benefits and perks as "acting chief lifeguard" in 2019.
Second was Capt. Daniel Douglas, whose compensation was only $368,668.
"Nearly all the top paid lifeguards were men, the report notes, and pay was driven largely by overtime. In fact, 31 lifeguards made between $50,000 and $131,500 in overtime compensation alone," he reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Meanwhile, we have to bail out blue states.
They retire early with huge pensions and then move to much cheaper red states where to cost of living is much less. It’s a horrible system.
We need to find a way to keep these blue state pests from moving and voting in red states. They’re a disease.
I knew an ER physician who would take time off in the summer to go back to California to lifeguard at the beach. I thought he must love his hobby a lot to lose a summer’s pay as a doctor. Didn’t realize he was really cashing in.
Heck one of our pools is delaying opening because they don’t have enough lifeguards!
My son did this the summer before college....Didn’t want to work in the family business his last school year. Was good for him as not all the fun and games most think.
Isn’t this the exact same crap that bankrupted Greece, and left it’s heavily taxed workers without essential services while GOVERNMENT employees carted off huge salaries and retirements?
Taxpayers in ALL cities and counties across the United States need to wake up and realize that they need to get off their backsides and start pushing back on the obscene salaries and benefits given to city and county workers.
Plus the taxpayers need to start to take a hard look at the actual jobs these supposed workers perform.
Government employees are the largest lobby group in America and the votes by government employees result in cities and counties having wishy-washy elected officials who kow-tow to these employees and their unions.
And this problem is not limited to Democrat run cities and counties.
Yeah, but if the democommies/nazis can pass “For the People Act” them evil racis’ at Citizens United will no longer influence ($)elections. Or some other 🐂💨💩 lie they’re putting out there. I know our two “UPOS” senators are “fully” on board with it. 😕
“””John Miltimore has written at the Foundation for Economic Education that an OpenTheBooks review...””
I will also suggest that taxpayers go to Open The Books and take a look at the salary given to the custodian of your local post office.
Throughout the USA a Post Office Custodian is getting more than $50,000 per year for their janitorial duties.
How many private businesses in the USA are paying $50,000 per year to their custodian?????
Union math.
To play devil’s advocate - that could be considered hazard pay. LA beaches are covered with discarded needles, human waste and all sorts of things where one misstep means a long slow death. Also gangs are a thing there.
Given all that, who’s going to work such a job for peanuts?
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California budget surplus over $75B, including $26B from Biden stimulus
WTH? A real communist would share with the rest of us. A bunch of phonies!
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To top it doesn’t Newsom have the beaches all closed. Big pay when all you’re guarding are incoming shipwrecked illegals.
Newsom is busy sending out checks to illegals.
(no really, he actually is doing that: https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-600-stimulus-checks-undocumented-workers/)
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