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Originally Posted by Lucy - CSC
Government workers on average get paid less than Private workers. Keep watching Fox and the Murdoch media as they love to vilify the government workers from teachers to police.
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Exact opposite around here in our industry (healthcare). Government run facilities ring up deficits into the millions of dollars that tax payers have to come good for, while privately run facilities like our own make a profit with the regular amount of funding we receive. (our business is partially government funded as well, but privately owned, unlike the municipal facilities.)
Some of their deficits are probably from being poorly run, but most of it comes from the extremely high wages they pay out which are totally out of line with all the privately run companies in the same business. It's like when it comes time for them to negotiate contracts with the unions they just give them whatever they ask for.