tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037190876571380696.post1198578559798946540..comments2023-11-25T03:11:51.759-06:00Comments on On Today's Page: Wet backs and narrow backs (Irish immingrants' native born kiddies)Denis Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833367196756465896noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5037190876571380696.post-54335847945942791812017-02-26T10:12:42.747-06:002017-02-26T10:12:42.747-06:00https://www.mackinac.org/14734
“A public employer...https://www.mackinac.org/14734<br /><br />“A public employer, unlike his private counterpart, is not guided by the profit motive and constrained by the normal operation of the market. Municipal services are typically not priced, and where they are[,] they tend to be regarded as in some sense “essential” and therefore are often price-inelastic. Although a public employer, like a private one, will wish to keep costs down, he lacks an important discipline against agreeing to increases in labor costs that in a market system would require price increases. A public-sector union is correspondingly less concerned that high prices due to costly wage demands will decrease output and hence employment.”<br /><br />+ two more para<br /><br />Answer: BINDING ARBITRATION (as a First Amendment right)?<br /><br />http://www.empirecenter.org/publications/police-and-fire-pay-keep-rising-benefits-sticky-under-arbitration/<br />“For nearly 40 years, unions representing police and firefighters in New York State have been entitled to seek compulsory binding “interest arbitration” of contract impasses, a form of dispute resolution not available to most public employees outside the public safety field. County and municipal government leaders have sought to end or reform this system on the grounds that arbitration unduly favors unions, resulting in unaffordable salary increases while perpetuating costly work rules and benefits.”<br /><br />News to me. In 1974, NYPD yearly was about $65,000 in 2008 dollars. By 2008, it hadn’t risen — 60% per capita income increase later. All of a sudden, in the midst of the Great Recession, NY raised it about $20,000. Meaning the money had indeed been there all along. Also meaning the the police union leadership in typical slipshod American fashion hadn’t even been aware of what was being done to them. Ditto for fire and sanitation.<br /><br />Surely be a valid constitution issue to go to court over in 30 anti-bargaining states — banging the union density pots and pans as loudly as we can as we go — hoping to switch places with the Republicans once and forever, if nothing else. Denis Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11833367196756465896noreply@blogger.com