Posted on Wednesday, 6/24/2009 - 7:16 p.m. PDT — by smi2le
No brainer!
Replace BART police with security guards like LA Metro Link
Replace any BART employees who strike with someone willing to work for the current excessive salary and benefit package.
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"Replace any BART employees who strike with someone willing to work for the current excessive salary and benefit package."
Joined: Aug 2008
Current Posts: 43
-- Eliminate the big stipends that have been paid to Margro and three top managers, each of whom got a $5,400 raise in January. "Stipends are a fine 'bonus' but not during a budgetary crisis,'' Luce wrote.
-- Reduce BART's nearly "pathological" use of consultants by 20 percent.
-- Eliminate 25 management positions -- including a $105,000 job in the safety division where Luce worked -- for a savings of $2.7 million.
-- Freeze the pay of all managers and board members for one year. -
- Rescind "all BART passes -- except those to BART employees." Consultants and firefighters have already lost the perk, but retirees and directors still ride for free, as do all police officers. Luce also takes aim at the workers, suggesting that BART:
-- Impose a one-year wage and salary freeze for the rank and file. -
- Eliminate 10 to 15 BART police officers.
-- Require employees to pay 9 percent of their Public Employee Retirement System costs, noting that "there is no other public agency that pays the entire PERS retirement costs.''
But what Luce finds "most appalling'' is BART's runaway overtime. For instance, one senior operations foreperson collected $109,221 in overtime -- on top of his $73,988 salary. "