Posted on 02/17/2015 4:53:14 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Union workers and prison inmates lent the problem-plagued MBTA a much-needed hand this morning, clearing snow and ice from buried Red Line tracks, a T spokesman said — but their wages are a mystery.
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Actually, historically, they do!
I’ve heard they have snow on the tracks.
I hear their cars are old, and new ones won’t get here for 5 years.
I hear they haven’t been keeping up with maintenance.
What I don’t understand is ...
The shut down the ferry at the same time they shut down the buses, trains and subways.
I wonder ...
Are they extorting money by being really bad at their job? That’s often a guaranteed way to get a big boost to your government budget.
Shoveling pay? Union scale of course. Wouldnt wan non union scabs operating a snow shovel. Its highly technical work.
IIRC, there was an article that said $30 a hour.
Maybe I don’t understand certain things. But isn’t MBTA a public agency, and as a public agency, wouldn’t expenses such as wages paid to workers be a matter of public record??
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What is this entity a dinosaur?
The wages of all the construction trades are listed in the design specifications if, maybe, could be, possibly any government funds are used.
Two numbers to look at, the hourly rate (on the check) and the package price, that is all the benefits plus the hourly.
A link for Chicago area Wage & Benefits.
Not listed are social security, medicare, workmans comp...
http://cisco.org/wages/
Most likely the tradesmen are working for a contractor that marks it up 15-20 %.
Straight time rate ~ $85.00 / hour.
Long Island Railroad Rotary Snowplow #193; built by Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, 1898 (weighs 67.5 tons with a 9 foot, 8 inch blade assembly; present tender is a 1940 Pennsylvania RR replacement of the original wood tender. This is the only surviving steam rotary snowplow used on a railroad east of the Mississippi.
Photograph by Paul Littlefield
The industrial revolution/age of the the late 1800's / early 1900's just blows me away
The industrial revolution/age of the the late 1800's / early 1900's just blows me away
I have 2 words for you, FRiend.
Profit Motive.
Once upon a time in America, the free enterprise business model, where private capital, ponied up by risk-takers, funded invention, investment and contruction.
The motivation was to gain wealth, pure and simple. It was an ugly thing, and it was a beautiful thing. It was the way it is supposed to be in the natural order of things. Competition. A free market. A meritocratic economic system where the best were rewarded the most for being the best and the mediocre languished and ultimately failed.
Sadly, somewhere along the line (I personally believe it was 1913 that was the turning point with 16A and 17A), the producers, the makers, the providers, and the creators began to be replaced by the consumers, the takers, the deprivers, and the destroyers.
Over 100 years have passed since then and it is getting worse and worse. The natural economic system has been destroyed, and the federal government has a debt service that, in 10 years time, is forecasted to have the taxpayers "on the hook" to the tune of $800 TRILLION per year... and that is just the interest on the public debt.
I believe it is only a matter of time and the whole Republic will have failed, completely.
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