[quote=SK in CV]
You guess wrong. The vast majority of California public employees have had their contributions increased. The 63,000 cited, who received either full or in most cases, partial payment of the employee contribution by their employers is dwarfed by the number who have had their contributions increased over the last few years. The 63,000 is less than 1/3 of the number of state employees, and around 6% of the total number of current employees covered by CalPERS. This method of funding, as bad as it is, is the small, almost tiny minority, not the norm.[/quote]

SK you’re missing the point. The Prison guards had it I don’t think Brown removed it from the contract.

The point is, that this kind of slight of hand is intentionally deceptive at best, dishonest and flat corrupt at worse. They make statements like, the employee share is XX%, then in another part of the contract, the State agress to pay the employee portion.

Corrupt, IMHO. Purely intended to lie to the people about what is really being paid. That’s my main complaint with many of the positions, the pay isn’t the pay, there’s base pay and then a plethora of different certification bonuses, shift bonuses, built-in overtime because they’re working. It’s like the fire fighters running around quoting the lowest possible entry salary saying, fire fighters make $34,000, then you look at the W2 statements and find more than a 1/3rd making over $100K and the majority north of $80K.

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t necessarily pay them that, I’m saying the government need to start being honest about what they are really being paid and what their future benefits are.