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Union-Tribune Warns Union of 40 Percent Wage Slash, Healthcare Cuts; Teamsters To Resume Campaign To Cut Paper's Circulation
Response to #3. Don, was it the UT's hatred of unions what caused the teamster drivers to denounce their union and become non-union? No, it was their acceptance to the fact that being a non-union employee was going to garner them better wages, raises, and health care. You can't have it both ways. The UT pays a lot, covers a massive amount of benefits to non union employees, and you say they are just trying to drive out the union. The UT slashes wages, and reduce benefits, and you say they are union haters. WHAT DO YOU WANT besides to rip the paper. You can't tell us what you want, just admit it. The only way you will be happy is if they do exactly what you want. But then again, If you were that smart, that brilliant of a newspaper man, I am sure that you would not be working for a weekly periodical with half of the UT's "fledging" circulation. Certainly another paper in a major market would love to have your brilliant mind.— February 24, 2008 3:10 p.m.
Union-Tribune Warns Union of 40 Percent Wage Slash, Healthcare Cuts; Teamsters To Resume Campaign To Cut Paper's Circulation
Wait a minute, a packager, a basic laborer would be making $10/hour. OH MY GOD!! There are many people out there who would jump at the chance for a manual labor job that pays $10/hour. Doing your math, that means that packagers are making over $16/hour! My question to you is...are they being underpaid! Open the classified ads, or jobing, or any other job search and let me know when you find a $16/hour manual labor job with benefits. Exactly, most of them make around $10/hour. I won't hold my breath for you to find one. You continually bash the paper and a lot of times you have good reason. But seriously, sign me up for one of those $16/hour basic manual labor jobs with benefits.— February 24, 2008 2:10 p.m.
The Peterson Case
Actually drowning and submersion while in or falling into bath-tub occurs about 350 times a year in America. The odds it will happen in your lifetime are 1 in 10,000, about the same odds as dying from electrocution or alcohol poisening. The way the guy act says more. He seems to be laughing at everyone and have no sadness about the dissappearance of his wife.— February 23, 2008 10:09 a.m.
Jenny Jenny Who Can I Turn To?
Tommy Tutone. One hit wonder.— February 22, 2008 5:43 p.m.
Jenny Jenny Who Can I Turn To?
Since Fogle's advertising campaign began, Subway sales have more than doubled to $8.2 billion. I hope that he's making at least 7 figures for bring Subway that kinda bread.— February 22, 2008 10:51 a.m.
Jenny Jenny Who Can I Turn To?
867-5309— February 22, 2008 10:38 a.m.
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I think Josh did this whole gig in a dentists office.— February 21, 2008 9:26 p.m.
Time for pension reform in San Diego
Richard, I missed you!— February 21, 2008 8:03 p.m.
San Diegans for City Hall Reform pushes more authority for mayor
JF, I disagree. My point with reducing (or eliminating) pensions is not intended to pay less in total compensation, but to force the city to openly and honestly pay the employees what they are supposed to pay at the time they are suppose to pay it. Back loading pension benefits and then underfunding them is a ponzi scheme that will (and has) led to financial problems. Saying that LA makes X% and San Francisco makes Y% while San Diego only pays Z% is irrelevant to me. What I am interested in is every year saying we have a set payroll budget to divide among the employees. If you want to argue that firefighters are underpaid, then the city needs to reduce the amount of employees or increase revenue. Pretending that we can pay more with the same revenue by underfunding future benefits can NEVER be allowed, yet that is what has happened. The unions (firefighters, too) colluded with the city to allow this to happen, thinking that the city and/or the courts would bail them out in the end by forcing the taxpayers to pay more than they had agreed to pay. You say that the city is at fault for not making payments. I say that the unions are equally at fault for making an agreement they knew the city could not pay for with the revenue they had. They knowingly and intentionally put the union members pension fund at risk. I don't think the unions should be bailed out by the taxpayers for taking that position.— February 21, 2008 3:05 p.m.
San Diegans for City Hall Reform pushes more authority for mayor
A pay increase for police and fire would be just fine as long as it would be handled correctly. I would support a substantial pay raise now and into the future it they would also agree to reduce the pension multiplier from 3 back to 2 and to increase the minimum retirement age. I am all in favor of pushing the real costs of compensation for city employees back in time from the future to the present, and forcing the city to deal with the real costs now rather than pushing them to the future. That way we are forced to raise revenues or cut services/staff now and the problem should never get out of hand. Employee compensation should never be allowed to be pushed to the future, and bonds should never be allowed to subsidize future benefits. One alternative that I don't hear mentioned is to scrap the pension fund completely and force city employees pay into social security like the rest of us. I have heard the threat of BK used repeatedly to threaten the unions to cooperate, but I have not heard anybody threaten the unions with losing their pension system. The city has demonstrated that it is incapable of administering a pension system. At least with SS they would be forced to pay a fixed amount up front, and would be unable to play any shell games with future benefits.— February 21, 2008 10:35 a.m.