As Fellows Lose Jobs Union Fights For Stiffer Drug Benefits: Free Viagra

by Warner Todd Huston | August 7, 2010 11:24 am

Unions have for years been figuring out new ways to screw employers and in Madison, Wisconsin a teacher’s union is looking for yet another way to slam it to the taxpayers by insisting that they get a free Viagra drug benefit[1].

In this bad economy, with states going bankrupt right and left, with teachers being laid off all across the country are Wisconsin’s teachers getting serious about negotiations and thankful they have a job at all? Apparently not, because in this dismal employment environment these teachers are trying to get free sex enhancement drugs.

The amorous union has demanded that a judge order the administration to reinstate the Viagra drug benefit that was sliced from the budget in 2005 to save money. And this demand comes at the same time that 482 teachers in Milwaukee have received layoff notices.

State Rep. Jason Fields thinks this is all ridiculous.

At least one lawmaker questioned why the union is fighting for Viagra while teachers are losing their jobs. A consultant for the school board has estimated that reinstating the drug benefit would cost $786,000 per year – the cost to keep perhaps a dozen first-year teachers employed.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” said Fields, a Milwaukee Democrat. “The fact that is the point of contention is kind of frightening. What are our priorities? I’m all for love and peace. But almost 1 million dollars? And you go to court over this issue?”

The union, however, begs to differ. They think they deserve the sex drug. I’d go into their argument but it is all bull. This union doesn’t have a leg to stand on, but they are demanding the freebie even as their fellows are losing their jobs right and left.

What we have here is just another union trying to screw the taxpayers.