48.9% of Unions members work for the Government

[Brownshoe]

(02-01-2016, 12:43 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: See, I can't sit here and say I don't have some perks being an employee of the Commonwealth, and especially at a state university as there is some additional pros to that. But the study presented last year to us and our legislature shows that we are the only state where the public employees, taking into account benefits, are more poorly compensated than the private sector in our state. When you don't take into account benefits there are a handful more that are in the same boat, but we drop significantly lower.

Not a union to be found for public employees here.

I don't know about you, but when I worked for the State I had pretty good benefits. I got 3.15 hours of vacation (which after 5 years of employment you got more, and more after 10 and so on) every two weeks and I got an additional 3.15 hours of sick time (which there is no increase with seniority) along with that. I had a better retirement plan than I have seen in the private sector. The health, vision, and dental plan were all cheaper and covered about the same amount as what I have now too.  They also gave me $5,000 a year for any college course I wanted to take, and they gave me 5 hours a week I could take off of my scheduled work days to go to school. I know I was in OCSEA side of the union, because I was working in the prison system (and because I was working there I might have had better benefits than other state employees).