Dear Everyone;
The Examiner in its Aug. 10 issue had an article about employers not upgrading to the new higher minimum wage law in San Francisco. I wrote a rebuttal which was printed today.
Examiner Article "Waging Silence " 8/10:
http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/081004n_minimumwage
My LTE from Letters To Editor 8/12:
http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/081204op_letters
Ron Getty
SF Libertarian
Congratulations, Ron! By the way, could you point me to a source for the following statistics from your letter?
"When you have a city payroll budget providing an average of $80,000 a year in pay and benefits when the private sector is $50,000, you have a problem. When you have 27,000 city employees in a city the size of San Francisco you have a problem."
These are some useful stats that I might like to use sometime.
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
P.S. - Someone tells me that my letter on capping city salaries was published in the Bay Times, bringing the total of outlets that printed it to three.
Dear Everyone;
The Examiner in its Aug. 10 issue had an article about employers not upgrading to the new higher minimum wage law in San Francisco. I wrote a rebuttal which was printed today.
Examiner Article "Waging Silence " 8/10:
http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/081004n_minimumwage
My LTE from Letters To Editor 8/12:
http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/081204op_letters
Ron Getty
SF Libertarian
<image.tiff>
<image.tiff>
Dear Starchild;
The $80,000 a year statistics came from Mike Denny who had the figures from a numbers cruncher who did the the work up from the City budget. Maybe Kai or is it Tai??? I do not remember the timing but it was during Mike's campaign. Or when he presented a proposal to a City commission on cutting spending. The exact figures are slightly higher. Try Mike for the exact figures.
Ron getty
SF Libertarian
Starchild <sfdreamer@...> wrote:
Congratulations, Ron! By the way, could you point me to a source for
the following statistics from your letter?
"When you have a city payroll budget providing an average of $80,000 a
year in pay and benefits when the private sector is $50,000, you have a
problem. When you have 27,000 city employees in a city the size of San
Francisco you have a problem."
These are some useful stats that I might like to use sometime.
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
P.S. - Someone tells me that my letter on capping city salaries was
published in the Bay Times, bringing the total of outlets that printed
it to three.