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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 817389" data-attributes="member: 12952">(WaPo)&nbsp; — Imagine the outrage if government workers did not have collective&nbsp; bargaining for wages and benefits. Consider the massive protests that&nbsp; would be staged by labor leaders all across the country.Think I’m talking about Wisconsin? No, I’m talking about the federal government.Contrary&nbsp; to what the Obama administration would lead you to believe, most&nbsp; employees of the federal government do not have collective bargaining&nbsp; for wages and benefits. That means the budget reform plan we signed into law in Wisconsin on Friday is more generous than what President Obama offers federal employees.Our&nbsp; reform plan calls for a 5.8 percent pension contribution from&nbsp; government workers, including myself, and a 12.6 percent health&nbsp; insurance premium payment. Both are well below what middle-class,&nbsp; private-sector workers pay. Federal workers, however, pay an average of&nbsp; 28 percent of health insurance costs.It’s enough to make you wonder why there are no protesters circling the White House.Op-ed: “Striking the right bargain in Wisconsin” — Scott Walker</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 817389, member: 12952"] (WaPo) — Imagine the outrage if government workers did not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. Consider the massive protests that would be staged by labor leaders all across the country. Think I’m talking about Wisconsin? No, I’m talking about the federal government. Contrary to what the Obama administration would lead you to believe, most employees of the federal government do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. That means the budget reform plan we signed into law in Wisconsin on Friday is more generous than what President Obama offers federal employees. Our reform plan calls for a 5.8 percent pension contribution from government workers, including myself, and a 12.6 percent health insurance premium payment. Both are well below what middle-class, private-sector workers pay. Federal workers, however, pay an average of 28 percent of health insurance costs. It’s enough to make you wonder why there are no protesters circling the White House. [B]Op-ed: “Striking the right bargain in Wisconsin” — Scott Walker[/B] [/QUOTE]

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