"Public servants are convenient scapegoats. [The GOP] would rather deflect attention from corporate executive pay that continues to rise as corporate profits soar, even as corporations refuse to hire more workers."
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"Most public employees don’t have generous pensions. After a career with annual pay averaging less than $45,000, the typical newly-retired public employee receives a pension of $19,000 a year. Few would call that overly generous."
Male Announcer (slightly sarcastic tone): Wall Street sure knows how to ring in the New Year. Hey, I’d party too if I made more in the last two years than ever before. Bankers, brokers and money managers collecting a record $144 billion in pay and bonuses. Not bad in the middle of the worst recession in generations. A time when the middle class is shrinking and New York working families are struggling to get by.
"Even though a decline in welfare and security for the public sector worker may be inevitable – and perhaps even a bit emotionally satisfying for some – it’s yet another hurdle in the way of a true recovery from the Great Recession, and one that could have economic fallout for years to come."
"Unions are the perfect scapegoat: an organization that benefits a relatively small number of actual members, which a mass of disgruntled outsiders can be easily convinced to blame for their own problems."
How quickly we forget why our grandparents, parents and so many others fought and bled to form unions in the first place. Let’s not forget!
- Attend VSEA’s January 18 Legislative Open House
- Volunteer to Help With a VSEA Event
- Testify at the Legislature If There’s An Issue Important to Me
- Get More Involved In My Local Chapter
- Write a Letter to the Editor of My Local Paper
- Write a Letter to My Elected Officials
- Educate My Co-Workers about Issues/Events/Opportunities
- Subscribe to VSEA “Week In Action” so I’m Up To Date
- Provide VSEA HQ with My Home E-mail Address
- Become a Steward/Council Member/Elected Officer
- Join a VSEA Committee
- Attend a VSEA Rally
- March With VSEA in a Parade
- Attend VSEA Annual Meeting in September 2011
- Sign Up a Local Business to the VSEA Advantage Discount Program
- Convert a Fee Payer
- Inform VSEA HQ /Elected Officials About Perceived Fraud & Waste
- Inform VSEA HQ About Private Contractors Doing State Employee Work, and
- Help Make VSEA a Stronger Advocate For All State Employees
What’s your resolution?
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