Union Influence

By Got Shares? - K_Yew | March 16, 2010, 9:20 am

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Scott Herhold, on San Jose's public safety unions and the financial strain they cause:

[What kind of city is San Jose?] Is it the one that gave police a series of nice little pay boosts after 9/11, bumps that take the average wage to more than $114,000 after five years on the job?

Is it the one that, thanks to an arbitration system it agreed to in the 1980s, is paying cops and firefighters 90 percent of their salary as a pension after 30 years?

In the past nine years, driven by public safety, the city's employee costs ? wages and benefits ? have increased by 64 percent. That's roughly 7 percent a year. I know I haven't done as well.

Wow. Interesting article.
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Bottom line about the way I think: we are born the same, but create patterns over time based on our lives that make an open mind less of a possibility. The key is to try to place yourself in different situations as much as possible to shock your system and force it to think differently; otherwise, the brain's natural course will be to calcify the patterns it picks up from limited local experience and the media, instead of reality.
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