How far do you go to protect what you have?
The outcome of today's freshly-negotiated State employee contract proposal should not have been surprising. I have known the rules for some time.
Yet I was shocked walking out today. Not at the level of give-backs expected, but rather the level to which negotiation went merely to protect the status quo, the same things, the same attitudes, the same costs that placed a system under water to begin with. While simultaneously sacrificing the benefits, the security of those who come on board with fresh ideas and strong work ethics because, ultimately, they have something to lose if they do not produce.
It is a sad reality when any organization gets to the point where the only measure of contribution is the number of hours you have watched pass by, the number of years you have done the same thing. Are we so out of touch with employee contribution that we cannot identify who has performed what service, at what cost, with what results?
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