Walker reinstates bonuses despite budget shortfall

[geefloyd46]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker established a program that has given hundreds of thousands of dollars in merit raises and bonuses to some state workers even as he preached cost-cutting and pushed through a law reducing most public workers' pay and eliminating their union rights.

An analysis of data The Associated Press obtained through an open records request showed Wisconsin agencies have handed out more than $765,000 in bonuses and merit raises this year to nearly 220 employees.

The awards are meant to reward stellar performance. But they come as the state faces a $143 million shortfall and after thousands of state workers took pay cuts through provisions in the collective bargaining law requiring them to contribute more to their pensions and health care.



[link:http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/04/walker-reinstates-bonuses-despite.html|

[BootinUp]

1. quelle surprise?

[MichiganVote]

2. K&R

[Worried senior]

3. Buying votes for himself.

[Bozita]

4. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

[midnight]

5. Why doesn't the journal print the names of each of those 220 employees

with the amounts they received like Scott Walker did to the county employees? Scott Walker was upset that overtime was being payed out to county workers and posted their names and amounts of income they earned.