[Mpls] (mpls) Re: PELRA

[lizski]

  No one on the Minneapolis School Board needs to go to Speaker Sviggum 
and ask how they can "get around" PELRA (Public Employees Labor Relations 
Act).  Just outsource the work, exactly like the state government itself 
is doing to get rid of those pesky unionized public employees. 
Outsourcing is cheaper because they don't have to provide those expensive 
extras that collective bargining provides like health insurance, overtime 
pay and a living wage.  This way all your services are cheaper and the 
outsourcing company can still make a profit.  I have a feeling though 
that someone somewhere will figure out that since they are doing the work 
for the school system (even if through a middleman)   that with a good 
attorney and a classaction suit they might justly use PELRA to sue and 
someone is going to have to pay and it will probably be the 
taxpayers...thus saving 0.

Liz Wielinski
Columbia Park