[quote=deadzone]BG, may I ask how old you are? It seems you are still living in a bygone era. Professional workers of today, defense or private industry, do not have pensions.
The days of people making as much or more money in retirment than working (e.g. San Diego firefighters) are over.
And anyway, you have a narrow and incorrect perspective of the defense industry. To you it is all federal workers (GS types). The majority of defense spending goes to defense contractors. When those companies lose contracts, thousands of people will be laid off. The income of those folks will therfore be decimated.[/quote]
I just looked at the article and watched the newsclip again. It only talks about possibly losing “Civilian DOD positions” in SD as well as Port District jobs (which are also Civil Service with some departments funded with Federal monies). The DOD positions are comprised of General Schedule (GS), General Management (GM) and Wage Grade (WG) positions. In SD, these positions work directly for the Navy and Marine Corps. The SD Port District is its own public entity and manages the port operations of SD Bay and Lindbergh Field.
The only jobs discussed in the newsclip were civil-service positions.
I haven’t seen the listing of the mandatory cuts for each region so don’t know anything about proposed defense contractor cuts for SD County.
It is typical for Federal workers and CA State and local government workers to receive a 100% pension (or very close to it in some local govm’ts) of their highest year’s pay (or avg of highest three years pay) as a monthly pension after 30 years of creditable service.
Any recent changes to those pension calculations were made for new hires in the last few years, NOT to active employees nearing retirement.
