Members of Oregon’s State Employee Unions Get 5% Pay Raises… as Taxpayers Lose Jobs!
September 3, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Oregon, Pensions, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Unbelievable. In Oregon the reg’lar folks are losing their jobs right and left. And the bad luck for those actually paying the bills, the taxpayers, gets even worse because Oregon’s politicians have made sure that the state’s public employees unions get an automatic 5% pay raise starting this Wednesday!
5 percent pay increase for state union employees begins Wednesday
SALEM (AP) — A step pay increase of nearly 5 percent for Oregon state workers represented by unions goes into effect Wednesday.
Some workers will get the pay hike immediately and the rest on their hiring anniversary, the Statesman Journal reports.
The 4.75 percent increase will cost the state as much as $16 million through the end of the two-year budget period.
The Department of Administrative Services, which negotiates union contracts with state workers, says the Legislature has already budgeted for the added expense.
Critics like Rep. Dennis Richardson of Central Point says the state can’t afford it. But union officials say the step increase is two years overdue and state workers have had mandatory unpaid days off and a freeze on cost-of-living increases.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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