Open Thread

If city workers got bonuses it would close the gap.

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at February 3, 2010 12:30 PM

Typical entitlement!!!!! Union workers don’t get to participaite in the bonuses because they are, well union. Give up the union and all the benes and then we’ll talk.

Be prepared to get pension and healthcare contributions cut.

Denton, I agree, but just because the average GS bonus is around $433,000, doesn’t mean that’s anywhere near what most people at GS are getting. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t work for GS, and no one I know at my two TARP recipients is getting much in the way of a bonus at all, certainly not me. I just think there’s a general misperception given all the talk about billions in bonuses being paid.

The biggest scam of all time is the amount of free time we white-collar workers all have on our jobs. No one’s gonna complain about that though! Now let me go check on some of those other threads.

“What’s really needed, and will probably never be forthcoming, is a truly neutral third party which could reach into both sides and remove all of the bad stuff.”

It’s called transparency and democracy. Writing about the abuses of unions in the OT is part of that process, to make people aware of what’s going on. Mayor Bllomberg called the NY Post’s recent series about the abuses of the rubber room procedure a “great public service”, and rightly so.