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Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
This was done via postcard lottery and they received over 300,000 post cards instead of the 25-30,000 they had expected. ================= Actually the count was over 500,000 or a half million. Or 20 times the 25,000 quoted in your article of what was expected. What was not referenced in the article is that half the 1,500 jobs were reserved for family and friends of current employees. That left 750 open to the pubic. This for a "part time" job. Why part time, because it is impossible to get a fulltime job because no one quits. So if the longshorement can get over half a million applicants for 750 PART TIME jobs then I think the SDFD can get plenty of people for their $200K per year fulltime jobs.— August 21, 2008 8:16 p.m.
Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
San Diego does not have identical benefits to the cities or counties named above. ======= 3%@50 is the same all over the state, and that is the MAIN benefit, the jobs both provide medical and dental and therefore the benfits are identical.— August 21, 2008 8:12 p.m.
Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
In what sense do you consider Long Beach he largest port on the west coast? ================= Cargo port.— August 21, 2008 4:26 p.m.
Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife Not Interested in Buying U-T
I would suspect that there was initial resistance to printing the Cunningham story. He was a U-T hero, even though he was a certifiable hyena. ========================= The thing I always got a kick out of from Randall, other than the fact that he was a hothead, was that when he ran for Congress (88,89??) he had NEVER in his life voted! That is just too funny-or pathetic depending on how you view it.— August 21, 2008 4:25 p.m.
Mike Aguirre's Brother Will Be Unpaid Intern
Smart move. Two Aguirre's for the price of one! Now the public union lackeys won't be able to spin it as nepotism (funny how Jim Duffy never faced such scrutiny).— August 21, 2008 11:57 a.m.
Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife Not Interested in Buying U-T
If the UT is bought with a propaganda agenda it will suffer the same fate it is suffering now- a slow death. The only possible way the UT can survive against the internet is by quality, unbiased reporting and editorials. No more yellow jouranlism and mud slinging-it just won't work in this day and age of instant news. I hope and pray there is no "Fire Sale" because that to me will signal the end of the UT- OUR hometown paper.— August 21, 2008 11:54 a.m.
Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
Gee Johnny, aren't you the one who keeps saying that we can't afford benefits like that here? That we're not Orange County or LA or Contra Costa County? Well you're partially correct. We don't have benefits like that here. ========================== San Diego has identical benefits. The biggest contributing cost factor are the 3%@50 pensions-which are identical.— August 21, 2008 8:20 a.m.
Maritime Terminals Create Good Jobs, Says Research Institute; Idea to "Double-Deck" 10th Ave. Terminal Would Hurt Economy
Oh, and the longshoremen don't pay a dime for their medical. Plus they have no deductible and $1 prescriptions. Plus they have retirement, a fund that pays them if they don't work and an employer funded 401K. ===================== JF, I can tell you much more about longshoremen than you could ever dream of. The largest port on the west coast-Long Beach- two years ago was accepting applications for and would be hiring 1,500 longshoremen over 2 years. The base pay was $$18 an hour-which is $38K per year, or about 68% of the $55K a FF or cop STARTS at (we wont even go into the "step" increases that come every 6 months). Now the facts. They had OVER 500K people apply for those jobs. Out of the 1,500 ONLY 750 of them were open to the public, the other 750 went to members of the current longshoremens family and friends (yes, HALF of the 1,500 jobs went to "insiders"). So do the math-a $38K job had 500K applicants, your odds of being hired were at best 667 to 1, yes, for every 667 applicants there was one job opening. Yet according to you JF this City (and state) cannot find even 1 applicant for the many jobs the FD and PF need filled despite the pay being twice that of longshoreman. Things that make you go Hmmmmm...................— August 21, 2008 8:17 a.m.
Mike Aguirre Has Hired His Brother at City Attorney's Office; Flak Expected
I would not have made this move 2 months before the election. It is just going to be more ammo for the corrupt unions and their minions at the City Clowncil.— August 21, 2008 8:05 a.m.
If You Get Pitch from L.A. Company called Property Tax Reassessment, Call the D.A.
UT a day late and a dollar short-as usual. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080821/…— August 21, 2008 8:02 a.m.