State employees are riled about a 0.5 percent pay cut? Kinnaird thinks its “very unfair†to lower-income workers? You’ve got to be kidding me. Someone making $30,000 per year is looking at a pay cut of about $12.50 per month. And bunching the pay cut into the end of this fiscal year means that same employee will lose about $35 per paycheck for two months. Big deal.
They should be happy they have jobs. With benefits. There are many of us in North Carolina who have neither. Are any of these state workers actually angry enough to quit their jobs, thereby creating some openings for us unemployed? I sure hope so. But I doubt it.
Mike McKinney
Carrboro