(DES MOINES) – The Iowa Department of Management today released the following costs associated with the collective bargaining proposal put forth today by the union. If the union proposal were extended to all state employees, the costs from all funding sources would be as follows:
Overall:
Year 1 (FY ’14): $122 million increase
Year 2 (FY ’15): $159 million increase
Across-the-Board salary increases:
Year 1 (FY ’14): $35 million increase
Year 2 (FY ’15): $72 million increase
Step salary increases (4.5% average salary increase):
Year 1 (FY ’14): $47.4 million increase
Year 2 (FY ’15): $45 million increase
Benefits (Health care, retirement, etc.)
Year 1 (FY ’14): $39.5 million increase
Year 2 (FY ’15): $42 million increase
May I ask why you feel you should control or have say over what they negotiate with their employer?
What makes you think you have standing in Labor/Management negotiations?
What’s next? Are you going to step in between myself and my employer and dictate what wages and conditions I should work under?
Or perhaps I should walk into your employer and tell him YOU are not worth what you are paid? Why then, you would feel ill used. No?
privatize ALL of it. Reality will quickly set in
Yeah reality will set in real quick when you can’t make it to work anymore because the road isn’t plowed, or hasn’t been repaired. It will set in real quick when the bridges start falling down, and your water isn’t safe to drink anymore. It will look real good when every single road is a toll road, and you have to pay $20 every day to get to work… Reality will set in real quick for people like you who spout this kind of garbage without thinking about what it really means.
You have got to be kidding me. What makes these people think they are worth that kind of money? They should be cut back and paid what they are worth.
1% is about as minimal a raise as you can ask for. How about you go into your employer tomorrow and ask him to cut your wage… then we can talk about being paid what your worth with some sense of reality.
@John-I have had my wages cut back several times and my income is much less today than what it was even 4 years ago. When are the state workers going to cut back? I can get a lot of people plowing the roads for a hell of a lot less than they get. Everyone in the state knows if you want high pay and benefits without having to work hard go into the public sector. It has been well known for years so get off your soap box. You can not defend the undefendable. You are obviously a union guy who is used to living off everyone else.