Posted on 10/16/2013 6:18:40 AM PDT by artichokegrower
To help you keep track of where both sides stand in the BART contract negotiations, here are our best estimates of current average salaries by bargaining unit based on the 2012 Public Employee Salary Database.
This page will be updated as new contracts are proposed. Last updated 5:26 pm Oct. 14 to reflect the latest contract proposal by BART management.
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Well, they do get to do some practice shooting of riders on selected train platforms.
You are right though, not only is this excessive, it is outside the bounds of reality. IMO, top pay should be in the 80K range with many years of credible service. Meanwhile, don’t forget the pension is based on the salary, so this is pay me now and pay me more later.
Holy cats!
I’ll move back the Bay Area for that type of money.
I wouldn’t live in that steaming ‘kettle of queers’ if you gave me the whole effing state GDP!
BART employess and their unions are so damm greedy. To do this stunt while so many are unemployed. Hell I would be happy and satisfy if I earn $15.00 and no more but I can see those who earn that are asking for more. I am unemployed and I would be so grateful to have a job but these morons are not. I say fire them all and hire people who would appreciate having to get up in the morning and work.
Better do a little research.
That's only true if you're a member of a protected class.
Equal protection and representation does not apply to whites.
Would be more feasible to apply to the NBA...
Who "runs" BART?
Members of the same criminal class that runs for state and national offices, or manage appointment to same as unelected enablers.
Wish I had a time machine or kept a better record of my notes when BART was being created, planned and built.
My immediate reaction on learning that BART employees would be allowed to unionize, in my mind, cancelled any and all positive effects the system would have on the Bay Area economy and ease of transportation.
It was like creating a HUGE pool of people subject to institutionalized and legal blackmail. And they were all sweet talked into actually voting for it! Without a permanent firewall against the union thugs. I repeated as much over and over every chance I got, back in the late 60s-early 70s.
At that time, I had made a conscious and personal decision to forego working in the big city, and the additional 25-50% larger salaries commanded there, since the only price to pay was hell on the highway 3 hours a day. I never regretted that decision.
FDR, the Great Conservative (/sarc) had this to say about Public Employee Unions, in a letter written in 1937...
"...The desire of Government employees for fair and adequate pay, reasonable hours of work, safe and suitable working conditions, development of opportunities for advancement, facilities for fair and impartial consideration and review of grievances, and other objectives of a proper employee relations policy, is basically no different from that of employees in private industry. Organization on their part to present their views on such matters is both natural and logical, but meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government.
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters."
(All emphases are mine)
Who runs BART?
Some highly compensated “public servants”
BART’s general manager pulls down hefty pay, $323,000 a year. So do her deputy managers, with annual takes of about $200,000 apiece.
BART’s general manager pulls down hefty pay, $323,000 a year. So do her deputy managers, with annual takes of about $200,000 apiece.
I want to add to my previous post, from the FDR letter, for those who did not visit the link.
"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities.
This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.
It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."
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