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Yeah, that's going to be a popular move. Ouch.

montgomery wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:52 pm

ELB wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:08 pm It will be your dog when the cities go broke trying to pay their employee pensions and want the State of Texas and the Feds to bail them out.

Be careful of what you wish for is what the 400 firefighters with pink slips are thinking right about now.

They wished for a pay raise. City said, can't afford it. Jobs will go if it passes. Passes. Jobs went.

Not a great situation and the pension plans will break us all, but it's still interesting to watch from 'afar' <insert old aggie joke about the 3 wise men>.

I don't have a dog in this fight, living outside the city, but it's been an interesting story.

This past election, city voters approved "Prop B" a pay parity measure for the fire department. The FD and PD have been negotiating separate deals since the early aughts. PD went for pay raises, FD went for pensions and benefits which led to a 'pay gap.'

The city can't afford Prop B and everybody knows it.

Solution? City govt wide 3% budget cut, extended hiring freezes (started before the election), more municipal layoffs, and up to 400 firefighters are being laid off.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texa ... 673189.php