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Originally Posted by njbchbum
buggyone - i'm not sure that republicans, in general, have a prob with the proposed working conditions - i have always seen Rs as out for themsevles rather than out for the group. but the fed emps and their extended families will sure have something to say and vote about! there are prob more voters who support the romney proposition than not - so it could just be a mute issue in the voting booth.
your predictions re the happiness of employees and the processing of their work is EXACTLY what has happened to nj state employees since the election of the current gov. he set about legislating away the collective bargaining rights of the union members, he legislated an increase in the member's contribution for their pension and healthcare, and he had their new contracts negotiated to deny them an increase for the first two years of the contract and with less than one and two percent raises in the third and fourth years. the union employees are losing money with no salary increases and higher contributions for benefits. that's how you lower employee's salaries!
the processing of ALL state work has suffered due to the reduced number of employees and the tanking of morale. major processing delays have become the norm. legislators now write more letters than even to complain about that processing time...i would love to be able to respond that the delays are their's and the gov's fault for acquiescing to the wants of the populace rather than the needs of the state!
acquiescing is what romney is touting, too. all politicians do it - we can only hope that [if elected] romney will do what poloticians do after being elected - the exact opposite of what they campaigned on!
what should be done is some heavy duty negotiating, compromising, bipartisan discussion, accomodation, arbitration, concilliation, haggling re the stumbling block of effective cost benefit to the employer/employees. after this administration that would be something new and unique! just offering such might be enought to garner some votes rathen than lose them!  |
I guess I don't quite know how to respond to the "difficulties" experienced by state employees, other than to say
join the real world. Their are hundreds of thousands of people in the private sector, who if they are lucky enough to still have a job, have endured exactly the same treatment as have the New Jersey workers. And guess what, permitting changing conditions, pay and benefits to effect the amount or quality of their work isn't an option. They either work harder, longer and produce the same quality of product or service, or their employer will get someone who will.