Posted on 03/30/2006 9:50:47 AM PST by radar101
Yorba Linda couple say union members allowed their dream home to burn because one of the owners belonged to a nonunion force.
Orange County fire officials are investigating the complaint of a Yorba Linda couple who say county firefighters deliberately let their five-bedroom home and garage burn for almost an hour last December before putting it out.
Tricia and Jeff James maintain that unionized Orange County firefighters were slow to act once they discovered Jeff James was a firefighter at a department in the Los Angeles suburb of Vernon that was nonunionized.
Among James' complaints was her recollection that a fire official said, "Who's the scab?" after he noticed a Vernon Fire Department sticker on several cars parked in the driveway.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Howzit a firefighter has a 1.1 million dollar home? Didn't know firefighters made that kinda loot. Must be the wife's income.
...was it a black home?
Almost any home with more than two bed is Southern Mexifornia is $900,000, if it is a fixer upper. My sister bought her house in San Diego in the '70's for 30K and it it now worth 2.2 million
Perhaps the suburban department is volunteer? Volunteers come from all rungs of the socio-economic ladder...
A quick search reveals that it looks like a paid (career) department...interesting...
You gotta be kidding me! WOW! That is amazing... a little scary, but amazing.
It's a paid department. As a retired firefighter from So Cal I can tell you if this is true the heads are going to roll, as well they should.
Thank you for the verification!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060312/news_lz1e12demaio.html
Have you heard about the fire captain in the city of San Diego who made $242,138 in one year? How about the city lifeguard who made $138,787? It's all true – and if you thought the city of San Diego's pensions were generous, wait until you see how much some city workers are being paid.
Illustration by Val Mina
As the public's awareness and outrage over excessive pension packages for city workers continues to grow, city officials and the powerful unions claim that while the pensions may seem generous, city workers are “underpaid” when it comes to their annual compensation.
To see if that claim was indeed true, the Performance Institute asked the city for a list of the 1,000 highest paid city workers. At first officials referred us to the city's budget – the document available to the public where salaries are published for every city worker. Not content to believe what this city publishes in its budget, we asked for hard data from the actual W-2 wage information reported to the IRS.
What we found provides even more evidence that a gravy train is servicing the top managers of the city and members of the most powerful municipal union – all at the expense of taxpayers.
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City employee membership in what the institute calls the “$100,000 Club” has skyrocketed over the past three years. In the midst of the city's financial crisis, the number of city employees earning $100,000 or more a year has climbed from 483 in 2003, to 644 in 2004, and hit 753 in 2005. That's a 56 percent increase in three short years.
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What's worse, when comp overtime is factored into total compensation, the number of city employees receiving net compensation value of more than $100,000 a year jumps to 955. That's in a city with a total known work force of 10,700.
The average teacher in my state makes $46K for nine months work- analogous to $60K annually - plus they get lifetime pensions of 60% of highest salary for the rest of their lives once they retire. Many of them now make six figures after being in the system a long time, and don't even get me started with the administrators and their salaries. If only I'd skipped college and not worried about a professional career, and landed a slack-ass municipal job!
/bitterness off
About five years ago, I read where the total amount of unfunded pensions for State, Federal and Local workers was over $21 Trillion. Governments at all levels will enslave us in the end. Without some type of revolution (hopefully peaceful), I can't see how our Republic can last another 25 years. The parasite class is killing the productive class.
"$46K for nine months work"
Nine months work? Guess you figure that they do nothing for the 3 months there's no school. And did you know that 46k is usually spread out over 12 months not 9?
"And did you know that 46k is usually spread out over 12 months not 9?"
That's so they won't be able to collect unemployment! Get your head on straight.
"That's so they won't be able to collect unemployment! Get your head on straight."
No I think perhaps you should examine the facts before you make such stupid statements.
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