Summary
The questions that should be posed by taxpayers to Washington state employee unions are as blunt as they are long overdue: What do you want to do? Do you want to save the jobs of your people so you can help not only them but those who need the services they provide? Or do you want to save the too-rich salaries, benefits and pensions your members are getting? The answer cannot be both. Sheer math (and the elephant in the equation is a projected $5.7 billion shortfall in state revenue) wont allow both.
And the questions taxpayers should pose to state elected officials are equally direct: Why in the world did you (or your predecessors) cede control of union contract negotiations from the legislative branch to the executive branch with the 2002 Personnel System Reform Act? Did you (or they) believe the worst economic crisis in seven decades could never materialize? Didnt those decision-makers understand that, if were going to hold legislators responsible for writing budgets, the Legislature and not the governor should negotiate union contracts?See the full content of this document
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In Our View: Evasive Answers
Answers to all these crucial questions wont be forthcoming anytime soon. What Washingtonians will receive instead is what weve ...
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