2010 Actual Wages – Wisconsin Wages With Unions Exposed

In situations where union membership is required to hold a job, bad idea in the first place, but where such conditions exist unions should not be able to take part of a workers forced union dues and spend it to support politicians or political organizations with which the worker may not agree. In the report below, Wisconsin union workers are exposed as taking advantage of the tax payers of Wisconsin . The state is broke, the voters have spoken, they elected a governor and legislature that campaigned on the promise to stand up to the unions, treat them fairly, but get the spending under control.   See list of union state workers’ salaries below. I was surprised / how about you? 2010 Teacher Actual Wages - Govt wages exposed. This is the official excel DPI Database of teachers wages by school district. Look up your own district !!! The current budget repair bill would have them paying about 5.8% towards their own retirement....right now, we the taxpayer, pays 100% of their generous retirement, and most of us pay 100% of our own retirement too.   AVERAGE WAGE AND BENEFITS (remember this is for about 9 months of work) TEACHERS: Milwaukee $86,297 Elmbrook $91,065 Germantown $83,818 Hartland Arrwhd $90,285 (highest teacher was $122,952-lowest was 64,942) Men Falls $81,099 West Bend $82,153 Waukesha $92,902 Sussex $82,956 Mequon $95,297 Kettle Mor $87,676 Muskego $91,341 STAFF: Arrowhead - Bus Mng - Kopecky - $169,525 Arrowhead - Principal - Wieczorek - $152,519 Grmtwn - Asst Princ - Dave Towers - $123,222 Elmbrk - Burliegh Elemetary - Principal Zahn- $142,315 Madison - Asst Principal - McGrath - $127,835 UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN STAFF (2009) (salary alone): Michael Knetter - Prof of Bus - $327,828 Carolyn Martin -Chancellor Mad- $437,000 Hector Deluca - Prof of Nutritional Science - $254,877 (Source: Madison.com -as the UW removed salaries from being posted online in 2007- why if they are so low?)   How about some other "public servant job" ??? What do they make? Madison Garbage men (2009) (salary only): * Garbageman, Mr. Nelson earned $159,258 in 2009, including $109,892 in overtime and other pay. * Garbageman, Greg Tatman, who earned $125,598 * 7 Madison garbage men made over $100,000 * 30 Madison garbage men made over $70,000 MILWAUKEE CITY BUS DRIVERS (salary only):  136 Drivers made more than $70,000 54 Drivers made more than $80,000 18 Drivers made more than $90,000  8 Drivers made more than $100,000 Top Driver made $117,000   (Source WTMJ) (The average private bus driver makes $9-13 an hour (about 20,000 yr) with no pension, or healthcare.) AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CONTINUE PAYING 100% OF THEIR GENEROUS RETIREMENT THEY HAVE SHUT DOWN SCHOOLS AS THEY DON'T WANT TO PAY 5.8% OF IT THEMSELVES ....REALLY?....