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queensnyatty t1_j6i3sgp wrote

Reply to comment by mowotlarx in Mayor Adams plows ahead with plan to privatize health benefits for 250,000 NYC municipal retirees by mowotlarx

“who were paid far less than their private sector counterparts”

Depends on the role. Doctors, lawyers, and computer programmers—all way less pay in government service. But bus drivers, teachers, and garbage men make more than their private sector counterparts plus benefits on top.

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qdpb t1_j6i4gk6 wrote

No that’s wrong. These other professions also made less than they would be willing to accept from the private employers, but the generous retirement benefits convinced them to work for the city.

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queensnyatty t1_j6i4vnv wrote

Go look up the offered pay for bolt bus and the MTA

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mowotlarx OP t1_j6i6sjl wrote

MTA isn't a city agency.

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queensnyatty t1_j6i89oo wrote

Ok. Are you still insisting that every city worker makes more than their private sector counterpart or is the retreat into technicalities your way of acknowledging being wrong?

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mowotlarx OP t1_j6i9yel wrote

We already know that city workers make less than private sector counterparts. This is well known and I'm not going to argue with you about it.

The MTA isn't a city agency. You are wrong, very wrong, and trying to push me on this? Ok.

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qdpb t1_j6ilo2z wrote

I think you’re going to say that Bolt pays less than MTA, but I wasn’t saying they didn’t. I was saying (in this instance) MTA drivers accepted the job based on the total benefits. It doesn’t matter that they could find a worse job elsewhere. We all could, yet we work where we work and expect to get paid what was promised to us.

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queensnyatty t1_j6ioxy3 wrote

You responded to my comment with “No that’s wrong.” Which part of my comment is wrong?

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