From UT San Diego:
SAN DIEGO — City workers are now 4-for-4 in winning competitions that pit them against the private sector over who can provide taxpayers with the best bang for their buck in providing certain services.
The latest competition was over the city’s operation of the Miramar Landfill and San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders announced Friday that city employees put forth a bid that will save $2.7 million annually over the next five years.
“They were very creative,” Sanders said of employees. “They are making due with a lot less, they’ve taken on additional duties and I think they’ve done an incredible job of figuring out how to stretch their talent and time.”
Voters in 2006 mandated the use of managed competition, which allows private companies and city employees to compete for public service contracts. Haggling over how to run the program delayed its implementation until late 2010.
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I know personally about these landfills. They are insane. It costs millions to operate them. There are always able bodied men standing around, watching or whatever, while one guy operates the big dozer. I have no idea how much they make an hour, but I’m sure it’s a lot. In the old days there was a “pit “that you backed your car up to that constantly smoldered the trash into oblivian. No rodents, no brand new mountains made of trash and no nonsense. Those were the good ol’ days. Now we have the EPA, millions of tax payers dollars and job creation……… and broken counties. Trash is a racket…………Out where it’s ruual, where I live, we could burn our own trash in a 50 gallon drum, if allowed……….but no. so instead, there are State/county jobs created by bureacrats to manage our trash.
Think there’s probably some hanky panky going on here. In most cases, private companies can run circles around a public union.