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 ...
I did but I couldn’t resist.
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Neither could I.
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I know there are past and present government employees frequenting FR, but I don’t view all government employees as inherently bad or evil, even though I do view today’s vision of bloated and overbearing federal/state government as both bad and evil.
If I meet a Freeper who is on the government payroll, I am not going to vilify him right off the bat just because he works for the government.
Heck, the military are government employees.
Surely you don’t paint with that broad of a brush? I have read your posts for quite a few years and you don’t come across that way.
I never suggested or implied that.
Fact is government at all levels are choking off America. This is not even debatable.
I certainly do not debate that! I agree 1000%
I simply didn't get the gist of your post,
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