horsesass.org - 12/28/2008
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Following up on Jon’s post from yesterday, the Seattle P-I joined the Columbian in abusing state employee unions for fighting Gov. Gregoire’s proposed freeze on scheduled wage increases.
Hmm. Sure, the governor and the editorialists have a point that during hard budget times, ...
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Good question…
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…from Goldy. Surely there are tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to save by trimming a couple percentage points from the cost of contracts with the state’s many vendors and contractors… so why aren’t these on the table? Why just the union contracts?
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