Fri Feb 10 2012
I'm a union member. My wife and I both work. This year I will receive a 35-cent-per-hour pay increase. It looks as if my wife will not receive an increase. My raise amounts to $728 per year. Then, of course, taxes come out of that.
In the past year my company lost 40 percent of the union workforce due to layoffs.
We have been fortunate to recover 20 percent of those jobs recently. The other jobs are gone for good.
Now the School Board and superintendent want to put a levy on the ballot that will deeply cut into the increase in pay that I will receive.
They have trouble understanding why people don't vote for the levy. It's economics -- we are not going to spend what we don't have.
The Board makes it sound as if they just educate us on the problems of the district that our wallets will just fly open. How arrogant!
It's my opinion that no matter how many times this year the levy makes an appearance, it is going to fail.
Ron Brown
Northfield Center
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