November 15, 2004
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Universities don’t cut your nominal pay. They just raise the cost of health insurance.
Posted by Michael : November 15, 2004 03:06 PM | Personal | TechnoLinks
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Common practice. Recent supermarket and hotel strikes in California were about this issue.
But, remember, as the Beltway Boys said, there isn't a health care problem in the U.S.
Posted by: Observer at November 15, 2004 04:01 PMOut here in the private practice of law, clients do cut our nominal pay (sometimes by going into bankruptcy, sometiems by hiring a competitor), but somehow our cost of health insurance goes up anyway.
According to a story on the local TV news last night, the city of New Orleans just did the same thing to the police department, already one of the most underpaid in the south.
Posted by: Brian Boru at November 15, 2004 05:51 PMWelcome to the real world.
Posted by: NJG from NYC at November 15, 2004 09:12 PM