Nice little email I got from the League of American Voters, which says in part:
La Follette is delaying the law until March 25, because he’s hoping for a last-ditch court decision to save the union’s bacon.
But he’s also stalling so his public union cronies — like the “meter maid” union for parking ticket writers — can rush through new union contracts under the old law.
According to the Journal-Sentinel, one Milwaukee union for 390 clerical workers and parking checkers has rammed through a 2 percent pay hike for themselves.
Now here’s the real outrage – it’s a retroactive pay hike going all the way back to 2007!
For his part, La Follette thinks the delay was “the best thing for the state of Wisconsin.”
That’s simply disgusting.
How many of you would like a 2 percent pay raise that covers four years that you already worked and were paid properly for? If that’s not criminal, it sure as heck should be.
Democrats, Unions, Corrupt Liars, all interchangeable.
If we were to publish the names, addresses and phone numbers of those 390 union employees, would the left hypocritically go into apoplexy?
“…years that you already worked and were paid properly …”
I contest this. http://ilind.net/misc%20/2010/productivity_wages.gif
Naggy, they had a contract that said what they would be paid for their work. They did their work and were paid for their work, according to the contract. Thus they were paid properly.
Did I ever mention a dozen times I hate unions.
Mr Hitchcock quoted:
I don’t blame the meter maids; I blame the government officials who agreed to the contract. I don’t like the way government employee unions have maneuvered themselves into a cozy relationship with officials, but the fault lays with the government officials who agreed to the contract. (There could be something about this retroactive increase we don’t know, because that’s an unusual provision.)
Governor Walker’s bill was really a last-resort type of thing, to deal with lower government officials who hadn’t been doing their jobs when it came to union contracts.
Please Dana, get it right? Walker busted the union. The union offered the pension and health insurance give back that Walker wanted, yet he still busted the union. That is a fact!
Governor Walker saw breaking the union as the only way to achieve the goal. That the union “offered the pension and health insurance give back that Walker wanted” refers to the current situation; Governor Walker was thinking much more long-term, and tried to cripple the unions’ abilities in future negotiations as well.
By now I understand well your Machiavellian mantra, Dana.
I think you will find that Walker seriously overplayed his hand, to the detriment of his standing within his own state. He behaved in an arbitrary and dictatorial manner that was unwarranted, in my view. Politically, I believe he and his party have paid and will continue to pay a price which you will not like, due to Walker’s duplicity. I doubt this will be forgotten. We’ll see.
Ad hominem. Hypocrite.
And a lie. Liar.
And wholly uncivil. Hypocrite.
You mean like those felons who tore up recall petitions that people were signing to recall the fleebaggers? Or the myriad death threats against Republicans? Such as the death threat a Democrat Legislator made against a Republican Legislatress? Or the death threat made against Ann Althouse (a woman who voted for Obumbler but repented of it)?
Naggy, they had a contract that said what they would be paid for their work. They did their work and were paid for their work, according to the contract. Thus they were paid properly.
And now they have a contract saying they get paid a bit extra based on 2% of the previous four years. It’s a contract – what’s your problem?
The one thing you didn’t mention, PB, is precisely what happened to their wages and the inflation level over those four years. I realise it’s inconceivable to you, but retroactive pay often involves adjustments based on real wages.