MA cops act like this is a god-given right for them to receive overtime pay (yes, yes, not paid for by the municipality directly, but let's face it- if a project needs to hire a cop at, say, $30 an hour for 10 hours a day for a week, those costs are factored into the RFP bid and, guess what, the taxpayers pay for that on the other end if it is a public project). But like many thinks in Massachusetts, there is a complete blindness to the fact that pretty much every other state does NOT require uniformed police details at every single freakin' construction project.
And you know what? The world hasn't ended. Cops still buy homes and support families. Life goes on.
But it is so hard to change things in this state, especially when an entrenched interest's money is involved. Just look at the disaster in Boston with the firefighters, who "conceded" to just a 1.5% raise for the privilege of showing up to work sober.
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Date: 2010-06-11 04:31 pm (UTC)And you know what? The world hasn't ended. Cops still buy homes and support families. Life goes on.
But it is so hard to change things in this state, especially when an entrenched interest's money is involved. Just look at the disaster in Boston with the firefighters, who "conceded" to just a 1.5% raise for the privilege of showing up to work sober.