As usual for Labor Unions, SoCalGas has made what appears to be a ridiculously generous offer to their Labor Union thugs workers and the thugs workers continue to sneer down their nose and reject it. Let’s see what else was in their goodie bag:
THUGGISH REWARDS FOR THUGGY WORKERS:
- 13% increase including compounding over the 4.5 year contract.
- Company-paid pension.
- Up to 85% company paid medical insurance for employees.
- Up to $1,000 per month company-paid retiree medical benefits.
I work for a very large private company that has locations all over the United States. We did alright last year, but almost all of our profit was chewed up complying with several new government regulations in 2011. As a result we averaged $0 for our annual Christmas Bonus. That was on top of our lousy but at least existent 1.24% annual increase in 2011 against a real rate of inflation of 6%.
That’s effectively a 4.75% pay cut.
Meanwhile, Labor Union thugs employees continue to make ridiculous demands for things that don’t exist on the rest of the planet. So not only are the rest of us taking effective pay cuts, and paying more with less for everything we buy, but now our natural gas bill will go up so some of our money can be diverted to their pay raises, pensions and healthcare benefits.
I loathe Government Agency Union Thug Workers pay, pensions and healthcare benefits because 100% of it is paid with our money, and all we get in return, if anything, are headaches or pathetic service.
I realize that SoCalGas is not a Government Agency, and that they do provide a product in exchange, but since they have a monopoly on the natural gas here I don’t have a choice. Since there is no competition here for me to choose from, they might as well be a Government Agency. Perhaps if there was some competition, they would think twice about turning down a 13% guaranteed pay increase.
I got a message for all the Labor Union thugs workers (sorry, it’s a natural reflex) out there that are getting pay raises, pensions and healthcare benefits on the broken backs of the rest of us. F***…..OFF.
You are very lucky that you even got a raise in 2011, I got 2% in 2010 and ZERO in 2011, and I was very lucky I didn’t get laid off in late last year.