Posted on 10/19/2014 9:39:47 AM PDT by W.
As he prepares to leave office, Governor Deval Patrick is quietly transferring 500 of his managers into the state public employee union, a move that will qualify them for a series of 3 percent raises and insulate them from firing when the next governor takes over.
Rolling the managers into the 22,000-member union will effectively protect them from any house-cleaning that might occur when the next governor takes office in January — a particular likelihood if Republican Charlie Baker were to take over after eight years of Democratic leadership.
Union employees generally have to be removed “for cause,” while managers serve at will.
“With just a couple of months to go in the current administration, this has the whiff of a job protection action just before the governor leaves office,”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
People here bitch about unions, until ya tell um there are now more unionized corrupt government employees at all levels, than there is in entire private sector America.
In fact this makes it many times worse then private sector unions since were are paying for the salaries and benefits of the government unionized...
Hard to believe the American people stood by and watched the public servants become their masters.
And this all started with the “greatest generation”
This is so the 500 managers can SABOTAGE the new Republican Governor!!!
They live great and we have to pay for it? Screeching halt, anyone.
The legislature certainly can. Simply pass a law that if you as a part of your regular duties, supervise 6 or more individuals, you may not be a member of a collective bargaining unit.
Send ‘em on over to assist our deployed troops fighting 0bola. That’ll work!
Government at levels has become THE biggest employer in America...
It’s why all anyone ever hears anymore is government, government, government...
From city hall, city departments, to the county mobsters to the insider elite in D.C.
It’s become all, encompassing, disgusting, controlling and is literally ripping this country apart at all levels.
Yes, they’ve been assuming the Lewinsky position for as long as I can recall. They’d probably rather discuss this over 0ebama, though.
where is the outrage
Simple. Give them a permanent paid vacation. all of them. Take the money out of progrsms for leeches. Take more out to run daily ads reminding the state that the Dems caused him to be unable to fire them ergo the state must pay them.
Tell the public that funding will be restored for the leech programs dollar for dollar for every one of these POS managers quits their job so that the state does not have to pay their salary and the salary of their replacement that is actually working.
Advertize heavily and let public pressure take its course.
Yes, and as always, government produces—nothing. It only consumes treasure, and in merely existing squanders much of it as well. 90% of it is unneeded and lives only to procreate itself. Like a virus, or rather, a parasite. Ow, my aching head.
Ultimately the unionization of government is to debilitate government. It is for the purpose of stifling the ability of government to govern.
Opposition government cannot function if it is a requirement government must share responsibility with an organization whose agenda is to undermine the direction of that government.
Example Democrats can get mostly as they wish accomplished with the unions of same perspectives, yet Republicans are stymied at every turn unless they perform to the will of the Left, and the Leftist unions.
The Left has packed every bureaucracy they created by creating departments under the Executive (POTUS) for Education, Energy, Health, FDA, FCC, and on, and on including Nixon’s EPA with their own, and unionizing them all.
The first thing that must be done should we ever get back control of our government is to deunionize our government by elimination of those unnecessary, unconstitutional departments slickered upon us over many years by the Left, and get this Nation back to the limits of the Constitution.
“I’m guessing that is the real goal. Look at how badly infected our federal agencies are with people who never leave. I think we need term limits on government employees.”
If the Republicans were serious about addressing government spending, the first thing they should do if they win both the Senate and House is put a budget on Obama’s desk cutting the federal bureaucracy across the board by 20-25%. During my years in the private sector I experienced many waves of downsizings. The organizations emerged leaner and more efficient. With fewer people resources managers were forced to focus and prioritize activities. Less time was wasted and once the initial “grief” period was over the survivors attained higher levels of productivity.
During the 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s when corporate America went through successive waves of downsizing, the federal bureaucracy added layers and became more meddlesome. Slash the bureaucracy by 20%, and discretionary spending by 20%. The fat buildup is tremendous. The only way to address it is with large across the board cuts. Then force the cabinet officers and senior bureaucrats to prioritize and drive productivity improvement (i.e. be real managers, not administrators).
Not exactly a sign of confidence that Marsha Coakley is going to coast to victory, is it?
The two constituencies growing the fastest in Massachusetts are the moocher class and public employees.
We needed that decades ago...
The servants at all levels of government have literally become our masters...
This should be enough to make every America recoil...
All this government ‘work” contributes to the parasite class. Some of my relatives have been on that gravy train for some time. They shudder and squirm when you question how hard they “work” and whether or not they produce anything worthwhile from what little “work” they do. Coopted bums, I’d say.
If they get reclassified into civil service, probably not. A lot of it depends on the states labor law and civil service regs. The people they are converting are lower level "mangers" and not high level political appointees according to the article..
There is no constituency for reason and cost cutting in public service.
I was a manager who benefited from collective bargaining. Everytime the union got a raise, we got a bump to keep the salary and benefit relationships from compacting.
The legislators and the governor are supposed to represent the taxpayers but they are all part of an inherent bribery system.
The unions make campaign contributions.
The legislators and governors accept bribes and approve the contracts.
The unions raise their dues.
The unions make higher contributions.
It would also help for the (R) prez to divest the exec of all those created depts, put them in control of congress and have the house write a bill making them -all- elected positions at the top...the ones not eliminated entirely...which should be all of them but it’s a start.
I don’t see why not.
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