Originally Posted by
JNYVEGAS
Really??!! Is that why NEA Pres (Reg Weaver) makes somewhere between $686,600 and $440,000 (NEA Will Not Disclose His Compensation Package) and the common teacher doesn't make 10% of that. Check the salaries of all the heads of this nation's largest unions and tell me what you see. Equity and Ethics???
Bus driver in Madison can call in Sick for his 1st shift and see an opening that afternoon and pick it up (Same Day Mind You) and get time and a half pay! Equity and Ethical Behavior? We can't do that!
Teacher who has sexual assualt or misconduct charges or who by judge's order cannot be near students gets to sit in a "Rubber Room" (like UAW excess workers used to be able to) and get paid full salary and benefits and watch Soap Operas all day. Young, fired up teacher gets laid off! Equality and Ethical?
I was a government civil servant twice. Government service was never designed to make wages above the private sector.....EVER!!! It was stable work with good benefits but lower salary because of the calling to be a "Public Servant!" That is totally bastardized and bass-ackwards now.
This nation and the states are in deep trouble. The answer isn't just changing public sector job pay, but the abuses that have come over time need to be stopped and money needs to be spent wisely. It won't be easy and it will hurt. But bad eggs need to go and even the Big Dem/Lib Pres FDR never was for Collective Bargaining for Govt and State workers.
Wow. So you actually buy into the anti-union viewpoint? Your comments are nothing more than regurgitating the conservative mantra over the past 30 years in their attack on the poor. Flaps 50, Fdxlag are on target.
A handful of undocumented rumors about some dude that "scammed" the system by calling in sick is NOT the reason we are in a recession. Open your eyes, man and stay off of Faux News. This is nothing more than the "Welfare Queen driving a Cadillac" spin that the Reagan revolution brought us.
The politics of wage repression and the unbalanced power of Capital over Labor is all very well documented, look it up. Federal tax breaks for the top, federal bailouts for "free market" ideologues, constantly sending jobs overseas where the labor is cheapest.. it's a race to the bottom and you are cheering it on, even though you are also affected by it.
I personally don't want to see this country being a great place only if you are rich... because think about it, eventually even a "rich" person will be on the bottom, and then they will be the target. It's like eating your young.