Sunday, March 6, 2011

Wisconsin Public Employee Union Wages - The Facts

Unions !
Wisconsin Teacher Actual Wages . . .

Are you ready for this?

2010 Wisconsin Teacher Actual Wages

THE TRUTH FINALLY COMES OUT ! AND SIMILAR WAGES ARE PREVALENT IN OTHER STATES... THIS CAN'T GO ON MUCH LONGER !
2010 Wisconsin Teacher Actual Wages - Wisc Govt wages exposed]
Soooo, this is what the big fuss is about !

AVERAGE WAGE AND BENEFITS (remember this is for about 9 months of work)

TEACHERS:
Milwaukee        $86,297
Elmbrook        $91,065
Germantown   $83,818
Hartland Arrwhd  $90,285     (highest teacher was $122,952-
                                                                lowest was $64,942)
Men Falls         $81,099
West Bend       $82,153
Waukesha        $92,902
Sussex             $82,956
Mequon            $95,297
Kettle Mor         $87,676
Muskego           $91,341

STAFF:
Arrowhead - Bus Mng- Kopecky-   $169,525
Arrowhead - Principal- Wieczorek- $152,519
Grmtwn-  Asst Princ- Dave Towers - $123,222
Elmbrk-Burliegh Elementary-Principal Zahn $142,315 (for a primary school !)
Madison - Asst Principal - McGrath - $127,835

UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN STAFF (2009 salary alone):
Michael Knetter - Prof of Bus  -  $327,828
Carolyn Martin - Chancellor Mad - $437,000
Hector Deluca - Prof of Nutritional Science - $254,877 (really??)
(source: Madison.com -as the UW removed salaries from being posted online in 2007- why if they are so low?)

How about some other "public servant job" ???  What do they make?
Madison Garbage men (2009 salary only):

Garbageman, Mr. Nelson earned $159,258 in 2009, including $109,892 in overtime and other pay.
Garbageman, Greg Tatman, who earned $125,598
7 Madison garbage men made over $100,000
30 Madison garbage men made over $70,000

MILWAUKEE CITY BUS DRIVERS (salary only):
136 Drivers made more than  $70,000
  54 Drivers made more than  $80,000
  18 Drivers made more than  $90,000
   8 Drivers made more than  $100,000
         Top Driver made  $117,000
(Source WTMJ)
(In contrast, the average private bus driver makes $9-13 an hour (about $20,000 yr) with no pension, or healthcare.)
AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CONTINUE PAYING 100% OF THEIR GENEROUS RETIREMENT?
THEY HAVE SHUT DOWN SCHOOLS AS THEY DON'T WANT TO PAY 5.8% OF IT THEMSELVES...REALLY?
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Everything that Is Wrong with Public Sector Unions in Thirty Secondsby Mike Flynn
http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2011/03/07/everything-that-is-wr...

This thirty second video will show you everything that is wrong with public sector unions.

The budget debate in Wisconsin has forced a long-overdue discussion about public sector unions. Always a questionable proposition, unionization of the public sector, for a period, seemed a luxury we could afford. Yeah, public workers had job security and great benefits, but their pay was lower, so it seemed a fair trade-off. Over the last couple decades that implicit understanding was upended…public sector pay moved much higher and those great benefits were jacked up on steroids. Worse, we’ve recently learned that the benefits aren’t actually ‘paid for.’ As a result, we face the prospect of far higher taxes to meet these past promises.

This is the central problem with public sector unions. They get to use taxpayer money to elect their bosses and they get to use taxpayer money to convince their bosses to give them more taxpayer money.

Let’s recap where we are:

* We’ve allowed labor unions to become monopoly personnel providers for many state and local governments
* We force employees to make weekly payments to union leaders
* The union leaders use these payments to hire lobbyists to agitate for more government spending
* The union leaders use these payments to spend millions on campaigns to elect politicians
* The union leaders then negotiate with these politicians to set pay, benefits and work rules for their members
* The politicians know that if they cross the union leaders, their reelection plans are more complicated
* We fund the whole thing

If we can’t break this corrupt cycle, no other policy decisions we make will matter. Yes, it is that important.

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