Union Boss' Answer to Public Sector Vastly Outearning Private: Get Better Union!

• Reality check? Of the City's 27,000 employees last I looked over half were sub-contracts to non-profits who have to be kicked in the ass periodically just to pay the City's legal (thanks to Gonazlez) minimum wage. Matt Smith is busy on another of your threads condemning the people who clean bedpans in homes for making too much money. Hey, the Weekly is certainly less biased and more transparent than the Guardian but these numbers are truly fucked. There are most certainly not 14,000 people on the City payroll making over 100k yearly. h.

• While there's a lot of deadwood at city hall, one thing to remember about public sector employees is that they cannnot earn stock or participate in profit sharing because the entity they work for (the local gov't) isn't a business. Private sector workers often have the opportunity to participate in stock options, profit sharing, or other bonus incentives that public sector employees can't. Also, this idea that we'll revive the economy by keeping wages as low as possible across the board really hasn't been working. We've kept real wage growth down in the private sector for ages now, and look how well that's working out for everyone. If we didn't have credit card mortgages and the like, people wouldn't have been able to afford all those things they bought in the last 15 years, and well....so on and so forth. That said, do we really need so many people (many appointed or put into the system by the business community's Willie Brown) "managing" or doing silly stuff for Newsom (another business community pick)?

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