Why is the fair market value of a job determined by a negotiating settlement where one party has vastly more resources than the other? Do you think that a billion dollar corporation and an individual with zero net worth are going to reach an agreement that represents the true value of that individual's labor?
Your concern is touching. We're doing just fine in Indiana, thanks for asking.
You must have learned a real skill and have a job that kids can't do!
Ironic that the Republican State Senators passed this bill through the Senate chamber with the votes saying they are able to do it because its not a fiscal issue.
Thanks for confirming what we knew all along.
Look I may have been harsh but the fact of the matter is I'm extremely tired of the manufacturing complaints these days. I'm sorry but working on assembly line even ignoring China wages is not going to put you into middle class anymore.
I bet you dont even know what is marxism..Go Walker! Use the force for good to defeat the democrats on the dark side of the force, for they are aligned with tyranny and marxism. Defeat them before their debt star destroys us all.
You must have learned a real skill and have a job that kids can't do!
Here's an email that was recently sent to Republican senators...the name is deleted and I understand that a police investigation is currently underway.
1. In 2009, the City of Madison’s highest paid employee was a bus driver who earned $159,258, including $109,892 in overtime, guaranteed by a collective bargaining agreement. In total, seven City of Madison bus drivers made more than $100,000 per year in 2009.
2. Correctional Officer collective bargaining agreements allow officers a practice known as “sick leave stacking.” Officers can call in sick for a shift, receiving 8 hours of sick pay, and then are allowed to work the very next shift, earning time-and-a-half for overtime. This results in the officer receiving 2.5 times his or her rate of pay, while still only working 8 hours.
In part because of these practices, 13 correctional officers made more than $100,000 in 2009, despite earning base wages of less than $60,000 per year. The officers received an average of $66,000 in overtime pay for an average annual salary of more than $123,000 with the highest paid receiving $151,181.
3. Under the Green Bay School District’s collectively bargained Emeritus Program, teaches can retire and receive a year’s worth of salary for working only 30 days over a three year period. This is paid in addition to their already guaranteed pension and health care payouts.
4. Due to a 1982 provision of their collective bargaining agreement, Milwaukee Public School teachers actually receive two pensions upon retirement instead of one. The contribution to the second pension is equal to 4.2% of a teacher’s salary, with the school district making 100% of the contribution, just like they do for the first pension. This extra benefit costs taxpayers more than $16 million per year.
5. Some state employees, due to the nature of their positions, are required to carry pagers during off-duty hours in order to respond to emergency situations. Due to the collective bargaining agreements, these employees are compensated an extra five hours of pay each week, whether they are paged or not. For an employee earning an average salary of $50,000 per year, this requirement can cost more than $6,000 in additional compensation.
6. Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Megan Sampson was laid off less than one week after being named Outstanding First Year Teacher by the Wisconsin Council of English Teachers. She lost her job because the collective bargaining agreement requires layoffs to be made based on seniority rather than merit. Informed that her union had rejected a lower-cost health care plan, that still would have required zero contribution from teachers, Sampson said, “Given the opportunity, of course I would switch to a different plan to save my job, or the jobs of 10 other teachers."
7. As a cost cutting measure, Racine County began using county inmates to cut the grass in medians and right-of-ways at no cost to the taxpayers. A county employee union filed a grievance indicating it was the right of government workers to cut the grass, even though it would cost the taxpayers dramatically more.
Im hearing and reading a national school student walk out this Friday 2pm in protest, is in the making.
Interesting....
Reminds me of the Vietnam war student protests, if it materializes.
Our right-wing nuts here supportredistribution of wealth to the most rich from the rest of the country.
That's long been the Republican agenda, and it's been the clear result of their policies since Reagan.
Today, it's especially obvious. You see states where they are shifting $1.7 billion this say, by taking it in increased taxes/cuts from three sources - the poor, the elderly, and donations to public education; and cutting business taxes by about the same $1.7 billion. Doesn't get much more clear.
Things like 'races to the bottom' where states are pressured to comete by cutting taxes to the bone on the businesses who can pick one state or another, while shifting those taxes to the working residents who do not have that mobility, is one huge shift towards plutocracy.
These aren't 'cuts needed to balance the budget', they are transfers of wealth.
Our right-wing nuts here supportredistribution of wealth to the most rich from the rest of the country.
That's long been the Republican agenda, and it's been the clear result of their policies since Reagan.
Today, it's especially obvious. You see states where they are shifting $1.7 billion this say, by taking it in increased taxes/cuts from three sources - the poor, the elderly, and donations to public education; and cutting business taxes by about the same $1.7 billion. Doesn't get much more clear.
Things like 'races to the bottom' where states are pressured to comete by cutting taxes to the bone on the businesses who can pick one state or another, while shifting those taxes to the working residents who do not have that mobility, is one huge shift towards plutocracy.
These aren't 'cuts needed to balance the budget', they are transfers of wealth.
Thank you for the post. As a 30 year former member of the UAW, I thought our leaders from time to time were getting us some absolutely absurd fringe benefits. For example, at one point we could get a quarterly bonus check for "good attendance". Like the people who didn't make it into work were interested in the money and this would incentivise them to come in? It was only a couple hundred dollars. The program was shit canned after it was proven not to work.http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/03/examples-of-collective-bargaining-abuse.html
It does appear there is some reform needed. Number 6 is sad, outstanding first year teacher laid off because of lack of seniority.
Our right-wing nuts here supportredistribution of wealth to the most rich from the rest of the country.
That's long been the Republican agenda, and it's been the clear result of their policies since Reagan.
Today, it's especially obvious. You see states where they are shifting $1.7 billion this say, by taking it in increased taxes/cuts from three sources - the poor, the elderly, and donations to public education; and cutting business taxes by about the same $1.7 billion. Doesn't get much more clear.
Things like 'races to the bottom' where states are pressured to comete by cutting taxes to the bone on the businesses who can pick one state or another, while shifting those taxes to the working residents who do not have that mobility, is one huge shift towards plutocracy.
These aren't 'cuts needed to balance the budget', they are transfers of wealth.
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/03/examples-of-collective-bargaining-abuse.html
It does appear there is some reform needed. Number 6 is sad, outstanding first year teacher laid off because of lack of seniority.
Sampson said Thursday she felt uncomfortable with the governor using her experience to push an agenda.
"My opinions about the union have changed over the past eight months, and I am hurt that this story is being used to make me the poster child for this political agenda," Sampson said. "Bottom line: I am trying to do my job and all this attention is interference and stress for me."
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 67 claims the city violated their collective bargaining agreement when it hired private contractors to help with the post-blizzard snow removal
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The grievance cites a provision in the 2009-2010 contract they had been working under in February, which states: The city has management rights to contract out for goods or services, however there shall be no layoffs or reduction in hours due to any contracting out of work.
Deputy City Attorney Scott Letteney, lead union labor negotiator for city, said the city did not lay off Local 67 members or reduce their hours, as many of them filed for overtime. He also pointed to a provision in the contract that allows the city to take whatever action necessary in an emergency.
There is no rational defense for such hatred...all you offer is diversion as if this somehow absolves the Party of Hate from the rancid taint that's so prevalent in their midst.It's funny, but the people complaining about it are the same people that were:
a) fairly muted when a wack job rightwing nut murdered an abortion doctor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/31/george-tiller-killed-abor_n_209504.html
b) Jerked off to invading Iraq for B.S. reasons
c) Jerked off to torture
d) fairly muted when a gunman opened fire at a unitarian church for being 'liberal'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25872864/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Also, you'd think conservatives would wait for an investigation, considering Walker considered causing trouble by using fake plant protestors to make them look bad.
Conservatives: Actually KILL people (and cheer it on some of the time).
Its a little ridiculous to claim that businesses are more mobile than average workers. That fails the sniff test.
Maybe not small businesses. But Intel and Boeing can build plants wherever they want, as long as that state gives them the sweetest property and income tax exemptions.
Walker says no layoffs. So much for shrinking the size of government...but that was never the real intention.
Either the rich keep their Bush tax cuts or the middle class takes a pay cut. GOP won that battle.
If you don't understand whats happening in WI you should probably just refrain from posting.
LOL...that's never stopped the 100% of the posters in P&N who do it from posting before now.....on any subject (i.e. yes, every single mother fucker here posts about shit that they don't know about just to make "their side" look better).