Get rid of police and firemen unions also, if you really believe that public employees should have no collective bargaining rights. It's not fair to condemn some and not all in the same group. That will be the issue when this is presented to the US Supreme Court..
Excellent news. The era of Public sector unions is coming to a close. This is the beginning of the end. Like gay marriage and marijuana legalization- the momentum is unstoppable. State after state will fall. Say Buh-bye to Public sector Unions.....
It's about damn time too! Even FDR knew that Public Sector Unions represented an inherent conflict of interest.
And where do the better jobs with better pay come from after this? That was my question.
That's the point. Driving wages, benefits, and working conditions down so employers can make more $$$.
How about paying productive people more than unproductive people.
How about hiring competent people? I'm tired of dealing with government offices full of idiots who can barely communicate in English, clearly don't give a fat rat's hairy ass about doing their jobs correctly, and couldn't be courteous if their lives depended on it, and knowing that my tax dollars are going to fund such a clusterfuck.
I realize that I live only an hour from the Mexican border, but this IS still technically the United States, so is it really too much to ask that when the government zealously pursues a hiring policy of "bilingualism", the people they hire are actually BILINGUAL, as in they speak English in addition to Spanish? Really? You REALLY can't find anyone in the entire state of Arizona who can communicate in both languages to hire for that job? I'm skeptical. And I'm sick and tired of asking government employees simple questions - up to and including, "Where's the bathroom?" - and having them gaze at me blankly and say, "Que?"
I'm irritable on this subject right now, because my youngest son just started kindergarten two days ago, and already I'm on the verge of strangling someone.
We live about a block-and-a-half from his elementary school, and yesterday we went early so that he could eat breakfast with his classmates. Breakfast is served from 7:30 to 8:20 am (class starts at 8:30). I know this, because it's posted on big signs all over the school. I have the breakfast and lunch menus for this month downloaded onto my phone. Yesterday's breakfast was supposed to be two maple pastry bars - pretty small things - fruit yogurt, string cheese, orange juice, and milk. We get to the line at 8 am, and the woman pushes a tray at my kid with the maple bars and the orange juice box on it, and says, "That's all we have right now." The cheese and yogurt are sitting right there next to her, but apparently they didn't bother to get there in time that morning to thaw them, and they were frozen solid.
We go to the station where you pay, and they scan Quinlan's bar code off the list (I pay for his food a month in advance, so that he doesn't have to mess around with it.) That means that they just charged a full breakfast to his account, even though he most certainly did NOT get a full breakfast. Excuse me? And most of the kids in my area are on free and reduced lunch, because we live in a poor neighborhood. That means they're charging the state of Arizona for a whole schoolful of meals they aren't serving. Can we say, "Fraud"?
Fine. It's the beginning of school, and despite the fact that these overpaid losers have all been doing this for years, MAYBE they are still getting their crap together and figuring out how to organize things. Whatever. I'll give 'em one pass. Monday morning, that tray had best have every single item from the official menu on it, or the cafeteria manager and principal are both going to have their eardrums blistered.
Like getting your kid an education isn't enough of a job to start with.
By the way, employees of TUSD are all unionized.
What a coincidence.
Always got a kick out of Wall Street protesters who would walk to Starbucks for a $7.00 latte in order to take a break from all that capitalism bashing.
