‘Trying to extort their employers’
If ever we needed a reminder of why public employees should have never been permitted to unionize, we need only look at the current “sick-outs” by public school teachers.
No one is trying to destroy their union - only require them to pay a larger portion of their salaries towards their health care and retirement programs, but these people are willing to injure our children by calling in “sick” to protest attempts by Governor Walker to bring our state’s finances back under control. The number of TV ads protesting the cuts demonstrates how much money the unions have taken from their members in dues. Perhaps if the teachers were able to keep those dues, the proposed increases wouldn’t hurt them so bad.
Any public employee who calls in “sick” as a protest ought to at least lose that day’s pay, and have a notation made in their personnel record of their dishonesty. Repeated “sick calls” that cannot be backed up with a legitimate excuse ought to be grounds for termination.
The people of Wisconsin are suffering through a depression unparalleled since the 1930s right now. Public employees ought to be very grateful they still have jobs and are being paid. They should not be trying to extort their employers — the people of Wisconsin — via these “sick” calls.
Chuck Kuecker
Beloit
Got a phone call a few minutes after opening my paper to see I'd been printed - a widowed lady whose husband had been a union carpenter, because to be a carpenter he had to join up. She thanked me for the letter, and said she has to pay the Carpenter's Union for her health insurance out of her husband's union pension. The public unions have it a whole lot better, it seems - bothe health insurance and pension partially paid for by us, their employers.
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