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Originally Posted by dropped72ss
Its not the unions that created this hole we are all in!
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I'm sorry, but I have to challenge.
Public employees unions are killing us. The average annual compensation for fire/emt department of 204 employees here is $102,000, a large percentage as the trade unions would say are scabs with their side businesses. The police are 192 employees and average $98,000. I have worked very closely with the local police thanks to a severly broken criminal justice system and realistically there are only 20% of them that are really commited to public service. The majority are in it for themselves...........period. Their medical benefits are at a level I can only dream of for myself and my employees. They're putting in 25years of 40 hour weeks and retiring with $5,000+ a month for the rest of their lives.
My company's labor force (floor covering) was union for 39 years (1960-99) I started there fulltime in '76 and my father served 10+ years on the pension board. My wife's side of the family is 3 generations deep in teaching (8 individuals) at middle and high school level. I have a reasonable understanding of fair and equitable.
IMO the public sector is blatently raping the private sector especially considering their level of job commitment. Plan and simple the public sector cannot sustain itself. They are constantly under funded and under staffed, we hear the rhetoric every year.
Sorry