On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Mark Iverson wrote:
In Nevada, collective bargaining and behind doors negotiating has
resulted in Fire Marshalls making
a quarter of a million dollars a year in total compensation! That
is absolutely ridiculous...
Who is to blame for that? Who signed the contract? Who negotiated
the contract? Take names and fire the management.
I
would only be in favor of it if its done in the open.. These are
public employees, and the taxpayers
have a right to know EXACTLY what public employees' total
compensation is.
-Mark
Typically, public employee salary ranges are public information.
They are frequently established after doing local salary surveys, and
take into consideration salary and all benefits. If there are
abuses of overtime then the blame for that should fall on the
management, not the employees. Same goes for incompetent management
of contract labor, like plumbers, architects, etc. The bills for
mismanaged contracts are less visible, and are opportunities for
graft and corruption.
Why is it that when the management is incompetent that collective
bargaining itself, or union members, get all the blame and not the
management?
-----Original Message-----
From: Horace Heffner [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:20 AM
To: Vortex-L
Subject: [Vo]:OT: Collective bargaining
There are advantages to collective bargaining for management as
well as employees. One is the
simplicity of dealing with all contracts and work rules at once,
and the improved stability of the
workforce due to uniform work rules.
If labor unions in Wisconsin and other states are dismissed by
legislation, the workers are then
free to file individual breach of contract suits, tens of thousands
of them. Retirees can sue for
lifetime annuities to make up the difference. When the government
goes broke then the bond holders
will have to pay up their share of the pain. Dismissing the unions
seems to me to be a stupid
strategy.
Better to spend the money on energy development.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
