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Originally Posted by Blue Thunder
Those benefits were negotiated in good faith many years ago by both sides, often in lieu of pay raises when cities and towns couldn't afford it. Private industry was booming and paying their employees handsomely with the benefits to boot. The public employee got left behind. Don't hold the public employee responsible today for something that they had nothing to do with 25 years ago. BT
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I think this is the major problem (not saying you are), years ago those deals worked, now they do not work, and no one is willing to adjust with the times on both sides. There has to be a negotiation or we will end up in the gutter.