Oh my gosh. That is priceless. Thank you for the comic relief this morning!

posted 9/07/06 at 9:01 am #

Don’t these people realize that they’re lucky to have a job? I’m sure the 10,000+ employees getting laid off from Intel have some beefs with this issue.

posted 9/07/06 at 9:55 am #

Um, RG, I think you mean “emancipated” from Intel. The County workers are merely seeking the same freedoms afforded to those in the private sector - freedom from the enslavement of the incredibly stable civil service system and the liberty to be laid off when the market can’t support them.

posted 9/07/06 at 10:17 am #

Didn’t you guys once get written up in the Bee as the up and coming blog of Sacto? What the hell happened with that?

Anyway, as for the ‘no slave labor’ sign, while hyperbolic and a bad slogan, it was trying to make a legitimate point, and not the one you were thinking of. It was referencing the County Superior Court’s ruling that banned certain County employees — like me, for instance — from striking. The County forbid us to strike without providing us binding arbitration. That pissed us off, because we had worked our asses off to get our members united against a terrible five-year contract. The County’s legal action was clearly a tactic of divide and conquer.

posted 9/07/06 at 10:04 pm #

what the hell happened with what?

posted 9/07/06 at 11:15 pm #

Either pick up my damn garbage, or get a new job you worthless sacks of lazy greedy crap. AWWWW- POOR YOU- You have to pay part of your own health care? WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD. AWWW- POOR YOU- Not getting another raise this year? WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD.

You’ve exchanged potential short term profits and earnings for long term job security, and, despite what you think, superb job-related benefits. Yeah- I “GET” 3 weeks of vacation, but really can’t take it all. And it doesn’t “roll over.” How many county employees have over “100 sick days”? I’ve never heard of such a thing- mine (except 1 week) disappear if not taken.

So stop whining. If you don’t like it, get a job in the private sector. Good luck accumulating your sick time and not having to pay part of your own health care costs.

posted 9/08/06 at 9:05 am #

Hey turd s.,

If you are too lazy, cowardly or stupid to stand up for your economic interests, well then, the world is full of idiots; one more won’t hurt. As for us, we fight.

posted 9/08/06 at 11:12 am #

Jeff: if we were all brave like you and took county jobs, how in the world would we all get paid, let alone get partially subsidized health care?

Turty: do you have any friends?

posted 9/08/06 at 11:35 am #

Jeff?! So you are admitting that county workers are willing to put the rest of us at risk when its in their “economic interest”? Since you put it that way, it’s in the interest of people who RECEIVE county services to fight back. Sounds like its time to see if BFI can pick up the county trash more efficiently than county employees can. And time to see if other private corporations could do a better job with a whole lot of other “county” jobs. Outsourcing would certainly save the public quite a bit of money- and eliminate these pesky strikes.

Working for the county in the first place isn’t in anyone’s “economic interest” (unless they can’t get a job anywhere else).

Who exactly are you “fighting”– All I see is picketers trying to intimidate drivers who are trying to feed their families. “Collective threats” are not something that gets my sympathy.

Cool: Funny. Your mother asked me the same thing last night!

posted 9/08/06 at 11:57 am #

my mother would ask you that, she’s very nice.

posted 9/08/06 at 1:11 pm #