Supes Abandon Plan To Control Muni Driver Salaries-Next Up, $8 Million Raise

This is what happens when politicians go for headlines and political games, instead of good policy. Singling out the drivers was an easy way to score points with a frustrated public, but of course, did nothing to address the huge pay for administration, and other employee groups. So it fell flat because if there was a drive to really reign in salary costs, the amendment would have needed to include them too to do any real good.

And, let's not forget that Sup. Elsbernd and the Mayor have always supported large pay increases for OTHER public employees, and silenced critics who suggested this wasn't a good idea in troubled times. So this whole charade finally fell flat.

There's no doubt that we need changes and we need to reward the GOOD people at Muni who actually care about their jobs , and show the ones that are layabouts the exit. None of that was addressed, and the result was that a half-assed idea is dead.

The fact no one is concerned that Nate Ford makes over 300,000/year plus benefits, plus will get paid EVEN IF HE WAS FIRED FOR NEGLIGENCE, and yet can't explain adequately to the MTA why the LRV's at West Portal run slower now than they did in the early 1900s, well that says a lot.

But I thought massive payments were the only way to ensure good employees.

Wasn't that why Wall Street banks had to give out multi-million dollar bonuses? (And they were using public money too.)

FAIL!