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· “Newly installed Cook County Board President Bobbie Steele announced Monday she has ordered a hiring freeze at the county — one similar in scope to a yearslong freeze by her predecessor but with tougher enforcement.”
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Aug 8, 06 @ 7:34 am
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Speaking of jobs and economic development, Rich Whitney has proposed giving Illinois workers a first right of refusal; so for example, when runaway corporations use up all of their tax breaks and try to leave before the state sees a return on investment, the workers will have a right to buy the plant and run it as a worker owned cooperative, and the state will provide them with the financing necessary to do it!
Comment by Squideshi Tuesday, Aug 8, 06 @ 7:49 am
What are the exceptions to Ms. Steele’s hiring freeze?
Comment by Leroy Tuesday, Aug 8, 06 @ 8:33 am
Other than having her as your babysiteer when you were a kid?
Comment by fedup dem Tuesday, Aug 8, 06 @ 9:00 am
In regard to the situation with the counselors at Sheridan Correctional Center, if I recall correctly, the plan was to privatize these services because the state could save money. If an employer bidding these services pays low wages and provides no benefits then of course their costs would appear to be a real bargain to the state. But now there is a contract, based, I assume, on Gateway’s original bid which did/does not include union wages and benefits. Maybe the Gov would just like to “grandfather” all these counselors, put them on the state payroll and provide salary comparable to the state employee’s wages in this position. Oh, but that would be a black mark on his national “model” drug rehab program. Just as a high recidivism rate would be a blight on his “model”, so this too, per instructions, will not happen. If there are no parole violations then recidivism can remain very, very, low.
Comment by anonymous Tuesday, Aug 8, 06 @ 10:02 am
Maybe Steele should start of right by taking the 4 family members she has on the county payroll off.
Comment by HANKSTER Tuesday, Aug 8, 06 @ 12:17 pm
Bobbie has 6 (count ‘em) of her seven children working in cook county goernment and she ain’t starting there.
Comment by Cook county worker Wednesday, Aug 9, 06 @ 10:46 pm