Question for Public Union Workers Where does the money come from to fund your outrageous compensation?

[jabin20]

A. Does it grow on trees?

B. Does it come from rainbow farting unicorns?

C. Or does it come from completely bankrupt municipal coffers?

[kendrix]

B. Rainbow farting unicorns.

Final answer.

[bercnan72]

Since the union is organized labor, it is they who are working for the money.

Think about the NFL lockout. The players are all organized together to stand up for their own rights since it is they who work to generate the money that the NFL produces. The money is not coming from no where, the players are the ones who generate it.

[jerard]

Since the union is organized labor, it is they who are working for the money.

Think about the NFL lockout. The players are all organized together to stand up for their own rights since it is they who work to generate the money that the NFL produces. The money is not coming from no where, the players are the ones who generate it.

I guess you buy into the story that they are outrageously compensated.

According to Keefe, comparing private and public employees with the same educational level, experience and work schedule shows private employees make 11 percent more in wages and 5 percent more in total compensation than public workers. Using the latest federal data, Keefe said the average total compensation for workers in the private sector with bachelor’s degrees is $89,041 compared with $56,641 for public workers.

For workers with professional degrees — lawyers, say, or doctors — the gap is more dramatic: $175,141 in the private sector, $79,330 in the public.

Public workers are more educated than private — 57 percent have college degrees and higher, compared with 44 percent.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2010/05/rutgers_studies_public_versus.html

However, among workers with minimal education backgrounds, public workers make more then private workers. Throw in a diploma, and they make about the same.

Now, for Wisconsin workers:

However, the data indicates that state and local government employees in Wisconsin are not overpaid. Comparisons controlling for education, experience, organizational size, gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship, and disability reveal that employees of both state and local governments in Wisconsin earn less than comparable private sector employees. On an annual basis, full-time state and local government employees in Wisconsin are under compensated by 8.2% compared with otherwise similar private sector workers. http://epi.3cdn.net/9e237c56096a8e4904_rkm6b9hn1.pdf

But the next time you get your bank statement and see all those fees, guess who is paying for the multi-multi-million dollar compensation package of the Bank CEO.

But lets say you really dislike unions. Well. private companies that are non-union pay wages to keep unions out, so you lose unions and the company doesn't have much of an incentive to keep your pay and benefits up.

[thom]

so, if your company mishandled all it's funds, you would take a huge pay cut, right?

EDIT: getting tired of CEOs getting millions of stock options being labeled as "just compensation" when the company goes bankrupt...but 30k in teacher compensation over 70 years being labeled as "outragous"

[cinnard]

You must be homeless if you think that a union worker's salary is "outrageous".

[jan46]

I am not a union worker but it's earned by them just like yours is earned when you work. Do you think yours grew on trees or from unicorns?

[nemausus36]

D). When I was teacher I always felt like paying taxes was like contributing to my own salary.

[chen12]

oooo oooo i know!! the obvious answer is B

[hwistlere31]

Who gave the tax payers money to the corporations ?