Quote Originally Posted by Dumpling View Post
I am a city employee that lives in Detroit. The ten percent pay cuts imposed on all employees amounted to maybe 25 million per year savings, maybe more. The annuity clawbacks came to 200+ million. The employee health care cuts and pension cost of living cuts are saving millions
more for the city. Privatizing garbage collection? More savings! In comparison, to donate a quantity of money sufficient to affect the city mayoral election would be about twelve million. There is usually a pro-business mayoral candidate who can "work with Republican members of the state legislature", who gets this twelve million [[usually by campaigning in the suburbs),
and is mentioned in both dailies frequently, even before formally announcing the candidacy for mayor, as someone who will bring the overpaid city workers to heel.
Then, city unions back the alternative candidate for mayor, who often has a corruption conviction and often as not takes money from scrap dealers, towing firms, liquor interests,
and strip bars [[sigh). So, yah, the city should be more solvent soon, all the Republicans will
get kudos, and it won't be too damn late for positive thinkers.
Spotlight on this!

This is why municipal unions should not be able to be involved in politics. Especially in a closed-shop with required union membership -- God Bless the Freedom that RTW brings to workers.

If city workers want to work to elect a specific candidate, they can have a separate organization to which they can voluntarily contribute.