GOP Leaders Call For State Worker Pay Cuts

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JOHNSTON, Iowa -- Top Republican legislative leaders are urging Gov. Chet Culver to reopen contract negotiations with unions representing state workers as a way of cutting into state budget shortfalls.

Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley notes that the workers' contract includes benefit increases and allows step increases within their pay grades. He says overall that amounts to more than a 7 percent pay and benefit increase.

Speaking Friday on public television's "Iowa Press," McKinley and House Minority Leader Kraig Paulsen urged Culver to convince workers they can save jobs and provide the public with services by taking pay cuts.

Culver has met with union leaders and says more meetings are in the works, but he hasn't formally asked to reopen contract negotiations.

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[redwitch]

1. Hows about THEY take a pay cut?

Bastards.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Of course.

The repubs always want the Union people to take it in the rear end. They blame Culver for this budgetary mess and want his supporters, the Union employees who plow the roads, etc. to take a pay cut. I happen to know that most of the workers in question make around the same amount that I do and really can't afford much of a pay cut. They have families to feed, homes to pay for, cars to pay off, and so on just like the rest of us. Typical republican crap.