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Originally Posted by whell
Public-sector pay is not set by competitive markets, and because many classes of public workers provide government-monopolized services, it's hard to know what the work of many government employee is really worth. Without benchmarking total compensation against the knowledge skills and abilities of like jobs in the public vs private sector, comparisons are not very meaningful. Also, the ability to trade current total compensation for relative job stability, generally richer benefits, and the ability to retire early with a comparatively generous compensation package creates additional disparity in a comparison of public vs private sector compensation.
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Are you serious? How does bookkeeping in the public sector differ from the private sector? A civil engineer working for the government is still a civil engineer. It is not like the public sector is some mysterious cabal.
If Saint Ronnie and the GOP had not set about destroying unions and the middle class benefits in the private sector would be better. If the votors would have not let all the right wing BS convince them the we have a great healthcare system some form of universal healthcare would have been in place years ago, saving companies money and making them more competitive. Why do you think GM builds the big Chev Impalas in Oshawa Ontario? It gives them a competitive advantage of about $1500 per car thanks to Single Payer.
Ah so you admit that their pensions and benefit packages did not come free - they gave way in wage rates, so they did not get summat for nowt.