Blue Flu in Tennessee
Seems to be going around in certain places:
- Memphis police say more than 400 officers have called in sick in the past week in what appears to be a deliberate action to protest planned health care cuts.
Memphis Police Department spokeswoman Karen Rudolph said Monday that 404 officers have called in sick since June 30, an increase from 308 officers who had called in sick through Sunday. The department has about 2,280 officers.
According to The Commercial Appeal, Memphis Police Director said Sunday that the actions come in an apparent protest to a City Council vote that will reduce health care subsidies for city employees so that the funds can be redirected to the city's troubled pension fund.
Labels: out-of-state, pension
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
49 Comments:
They have to cut their health care.
The money is going to the illegal immigrant children coming across the border and to bus them around by US border patrol under Obama's orders!
I was a cook county sheriff and we pulled this stunt. The judges were shitting bricks.
and guess what happened???
A great contract.
This Department has alot of talkers not much in the way of overachievers.
Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
How long are we going to take it up the ass by this fucked up mayor before we start feeling blue?
We can't strike but we sure as hell can all hit the medical for a weekend and let this place burn.
They have balls to stand up and fight back. Good for them
What are they Bizarro Chicago, nothing happens when they're cops are off on the holidays, but you work here 4 days straight and it goes up!
No vri would have the same effect here.
To the unpublished:
The Memphis mayor is a democrat...look it up.
Memphis is holding on from completely becoming Detroit. Beale St and tourist places like Graceland and Sun studios is its lifeline.
SCC said...
To the unpublished:
The Memphis mayor is a democrat...look it up.
7/09/2014 04:14:00 AM
You right there Kingfish. The Mayor of Memphis is the honorable A C Wharton. Mayor Wharton says his name is simply the letters A C and that they don't stand for anything. True.
Wharton publicly disagreed with the 2010 Forbes rating of Memphis as Most Miserable City in America. You can just about guess the rest. His administration cut the police and fire budget.
Retirees must pay 100% of their health insurance premiums. Active workers got a hefty raise in their premium.
Sounds like a lovely place to leave. Detroit of the South.
A few decades ago the once great CPD had balls like that.
You will never stop officers from working VRI.
7/09/2014 12:34:00 AM: Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
Typical liberal mentality. There is no mention of the fact that these officers paid into their pension. These officers were promised this pension & health care, but the Democrats redirected (misused) the police pension fund money. Now the Liberal thinking is just get new police? Are you kidding me.
You would think even liberals would want someone held responsible for all the theft of pension funds.
To the latest genius advocating "letting this place burn". Last time I checked we still have to live in "this place". No different than the element burning their neighborhoods in various riots. Makes no sense.
The article said 550 called in sick
04:14:00 am is correct. Tell your friends to lay off VRI for a week. That will get the attention of the Mayor. We need to do it now; right on the heels of Memphis. It will get more attention.
What would happen of it happened in a big city?
Yeah, whatever. All I wanna know is will my VRI be impacted?
Blue Flu only hurts the cause, ticket strikes do more.
I think I'm coming down with something.
It won't matter what they say or do to your pensions. The rules are being changed, and as each system goes bankrupt, there won't be any pension protection. States & municipalities don't have a Federal Reserve to support their debt, so they will go into bankruptcy. And here is what the judge will say; "I might be persuaded that...the pensions can be adjusted,"
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/08/6542362/judge-suggests-stockton-worker.html
This is getting little attention in the financial world, but pensions, which were once protected, are at risk.
Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
blow me liberal...
democrats=the scum of the earth.
liberals=the scum of the earth
another town run by a liberal democrat. enough said.
7/09/2014 12:52:00 AM we have a pretty good job and I am sure the city could find people wiling to make half as much to do our job. As long as we can keep what we have on the table we would be lucky. Asking for more is not going to happen and calling in sick won't solve the problem.
Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
Hey Jagoff, do some research. They are not just slightly modifying the health benefits, they are pretty much eliminating any city subsidy. Basic family plan goes from $320.00 or so out of pocket to $920.00 and change. Premier family plan to $1500 plus out of pocket. Bet they put a whole shit load of bike lanes in Memphis too......oh yeah they did.
Just like here no politician is held accountable for the pension mess. Just take and cut public employee benefits to make up for past corruption and out right theft. We know who many of the political players are or were in Illinois but they are either dead, retired, or in most cases untouchable. Now we the employees and pensioners must suffer for their sins. Shame on us all.
Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
7/09/2014 12:34:00 AM
You do realize that you get what you pay for. Sure, you could probably hire someone to be the police for minimum wage, but would they have the desire or ability to even make it through the academy? I don't think so. Then when they are getting jobs that call for dealing with an armed subject do you think they'll put themselves in harms way for minimum wage? I don't think so. How about using some common sense and realizing that pension moneys are being stolen by Dem politicians all across the country. That's the reason so many pension systems are in bad shape. The solution is to vote the Dems out of office and get the pensions fully funded by cutting entitlements to those who never worked for them.
I left Memphis in 1990 to move to NashVegas. Willie Herenton took office as mayor in 1991. Memphis' downhill decline sped up at that point, never to recover.
Still have friends there. The city was audited a few years back, and it was pretty bad; property and money missing, etc. It's completely under democratic control. It will be the next Detroit.
Can it be a coincidence that during this contract negotiation, my back is beginning to hurt???
If corporate america had done to pensions what Chicago has done, all of the social marxists (Rahm, Madigan, Quinn, etal) would be vilifying the corporate executives like there is no tomorrow.
Capitalism is bad. Bernie Madoff is a crook. The dude from Enron. Yada, Yada, Yada.
The pols would be screaming this shit from the rooftops, and there would be no end of it.
But since the number one responsible party is DICK Daley, all we get from the Democrats is the Code of Silence.
Rahm-a-lama-ding-dong can't even point his stanky little finger at him.
Reason #497 why Rahm is only interested in advancing his own interests, and not those of the people who elected him.
Not a cop.
You will never get CPD to go with a Blu Flu. First of all... The last of the... I have a set of balls coppers are retiring and just dont give a fuck anymore. Secondly.... all these brainiac college snot nosed idiots are afraid of their own shadow. I am so glad Im a short timer.
Blue Flu only hurts the cause, ticket strikes do more.
Yea OK get back under the commanders desk where you belong.
7/09/2014 12:34:00 AM: Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits
Whats your name?.. I wanna punch you in the fuckin head.
>>>> 7/09/2014 12:34:00 AM || Anonymous said... || "Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits." <<<<
What's with you liberal assholes and your disregard of binding contracts, written laws, and ...oh...things like constitutions? Though I bet you'd throw a fucking major league hissy fit if it was your ox that was getting gored.
Like if your Bank Statement had a $5 dollar error on it. Yeah, you'd be on the phone screaming for 'your money', and/or pounding on the goddamn office door at 7:55am demanding 'what's rightfully yours'.
Do the world a favor, go play in traffic.
I guess they aren't distracted with VRI!
Fidel Rahmobamalynsky truly believes ObamaCare® is the answer to our healthcare issue, as perhaps is the case in Memphis. Big out-of-pocket and sky high deductibles, and absolutely no subsidy for the +$40k retiree. So lower the wages and cut the hours so everyone can be as piss poor as the next.
I was recently in TN...wonder if that stuff is contagious ? Lets see how this pans out, there could very well be a pandemic coming here.
But on another note, Daley's pension pyramid scheme evaded any Fed inquiry, how?
nonymous said...
Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
7/09/2014 12:34:00 AM
BULLSHIT on that one. A vast majority of the public could not and would not do the job of a police officer. Pay them less and garbage benefits, who do you think is going to be patrolling the neighborhood where you live?
Anonymous said...
Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
7/09/2014 12:34:00 AM
Ha! You are absolutely right. Several people will take this job for less. The joke is on you. First off, it will be the bottom of the barrel. The most recent generations are full of military veterans and college graduates. They WILL NOT be a large part of your minimum wage police force but I can tell you who will...a low-skilled and low-educated pool who you will cringe at seeing on the stand because they cannot speak, their reports will get the guilty freed because they cannot write and their excessive force will cost the city millions. The joke wouldn't be on the police. They will all migrate to better paying municipalities, retire, or find a safer job period. I had an education and military experience before I ever applied to a PD. I didn't come here because I needed it. I came because I wanted it. You goofball ctizens really think you have it figured out. Go ahead and try to underpay your police and see what happens to YOUR municipality. Note: there cities in California going through a hiring crisis right now for the same strategy. They hire people and they already know most of them will leave for neighboring towns but they're so short they HAVE to hire them anyway. Go ahead idiot...try and see. http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/san-jose-police-department-institute-mandatory-ove/ngPQj/
The hair gels on this department don't have the balls to take a job action. Write their contact cards and play with their smart phones.
I got a cold right now!
This city is going to arbitration again because Rahm is an ASSHOLE!
Da Pelon
Cuthbert J. Twillie said...
>>>> 7/09/2014 12:34:00 AM || Anonymous said... || "Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits." <<<<
What's with you liberal assholes and your disregard of binding contracts, written laws, and ...oh...things like constitutions? Though I bet you'd throw a fucking major league hissy fit if it was your ox that was getting gored.
Like if your Bank Statement had a $5 dollar error on it. Yeah, you'd be on the phone screaming for 'your money', and/or pounding on the goddamn office door at 7:55am demanding 'what's rightfully yours'.
Do the world a favor, go play in traffic.
7/09/2014 04:05:00 PM
The same idiots who complain about us, paid too much etc., kept their yap shut on election day for years and kept putting that moron thief Daley back in office. Even today these idiot voters don't realize how badly they have been screwed by the Daley's of this city.
They just accept that the city is in the dumper without getting very angry at the mumbling little Irish politician who caused it all. No, it is our fault, we police with our unsustainable pensions. Funny thing, when Daley came into office in 1989, I was on the job then, the pension fund and City finances in general, were in fine shape. Everything was solvent, not a problem with the pension fund. It took 22 years of Richard M Daley to run it near dry.
And under the City Treasurer Daley setup and had thrown into prison, Miriam Santos, our pension fund was 77% funded under her watchful eye. Daley had her tossed and all future treasurers kept their mouth shut as Daley ran the pension funds, all of them, into the ground.
Now those ignorant voters dare to post that others will do this job for less. It wouldn't even be a thought had Daley been kept in check by the likes of Miriam Santos.
Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
Simple, GFY...
They have to cut their health care.
The money is going to the illegal immigrant children coming across the border and to bus them around by US border patrol under Obama's orders!
7/09/2014 12:19:00 AM
You're ignorant. The US law that provides financial assistance to cities to counter costs for people coming across the border was written and passed 11 years ago. Get involved in your government and stop being a parrot. Pay attention please.
7/09/2014 12:52:00 AM we have a pretty good job and I am sure the city could find people wiling to make half as much to do our job. As long as we can keep what we have on the table we would be lucky. Asking for more is not going to happen and calling in sick won't solve the problem.
7/09/2014 09:39:00 AM
Excellent point. People need to see the bigger picture.
If corporate america had done to pensions what Chicago has done, all of the social marxists (Rahm, Madigan, Quinn, etal) would be vilifying the corporate executives like there is no tomorrow.
Capitalism is bad. Bernie Madoff is a crook. The dude from Enron. Yada, Yada, Yada.
The pols would be screaming this shit from the rooftops, and there would be no end of it....
Not a cop.
7/09/2014 02:11:00 PM
Not a cop either and you do know that because corporate America did worse with private sector retirement funds and healthcare, that this is the reason why your benefits are now coveted and on the chopping block with the private sector leading the charge?
Public pension funds and benefits are one of the few honey pots left. Once the private sector aka hedge funds get total control over them, you'll be toast like we are.
Anonymous said...
Simple, the police are more expensive than the city can afford. If they won't work, fire them. There are those out there that will do the same job for less pay and benefits.
7/10/2014 12:00:00 AM
Lot's of luck with the less pay and benefits thing. Sleep tight and I hope you feel real safe and secure in your bed at night with your cheapskate police department.
That shit works both ways. What kind of work do you do? There must be some Chinese people who will do what you do for a third of the cost and no benefits. Keep this in mind if you ever find yourself in the unemployment line asshole.
Blue Flu only hurts the cause, ticket strikes do more.
7/09/2014 08:32:00 AM
Tell that to all the cops out here in Chiraq doing street cleaning and rush hour and meters so they can qualify for the specials
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