Friday, January 29, 2010

What Leadership Looks Like

From JSOnline:
The village has approved an employee contract that, for the first time, limits the amount of tax money that will be paid toward employee pensions.

The contract with public works and some clerical employees is unusual in that most municipalities in southeastern Wisconsin pay all employee pension contributions and with no limit, Village Manager Russell Van Gompel said Thursday.

The provision in the AFSCME union contract, approved this week by the Village Board, is a "foot in the door" toward controlling pension costs, Van Gompel said.

The change applies only to employees covered by the union who are hired after Jan. 1, 2010. Pension contributions vary from one year to the next, but for 2010 the village would pay 10.5% of the new employee's salary as a pension contribution and the employee would pay 0.5%.

The 10.5% contribution is the maximum the village would make.

Van Gompel said the contract also provides a retroactive pay increase of 2% for 2009 and a pay freeze for 2010. For health insurance, all employees covered by the contract will pay 10% of premium costs by the end of the contract; some now pay 7%, he said.

Folks, that's the same AFSCME that represents me and my fellow county employees.

The difference is that Brown Deer have leaders that want to look after their constituents. Scott Walker wants to only look after his campaign interests. He just plain doesn't give a damn about the tax payers.

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