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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (266242)	12/28/2005 4:03:56 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575154

Ted, it's easy to give out the bennies and hell to take them back. With no controls on medical costs a lot of pensions are doomed. Those transit workers in NY were bitching about having to fund 6% of their own pensions for chrissake. How do you know that that was an unreasonable complaint? From what I know it's not uncommon for both private and gov't entitites to pay the entire pension plan of tenured employees. Is it not possible the union backed off some other issue in the past in order to insure that the city continued to pay into the employees' pension plan only to have a new mayor renege on the deal? Do you know what past negotiations between the city and the employees have been say for the past 20 years? I bet you don't. So why assume the workers are screwing the city?