From the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE:
…The union for Pennsylvania liquor store clerks has inked a contract guaranteeing them work for three more years that it says could kill liquor privatization — but the Corbett administration disagrees, saying the pact would be voided if the state got out of the business.
The United Food and Commercial Workers agreed to a contract Sunday for 3,500 of its workers with a clause requiring any entity taking over liquor or wine sales from the state to hire displaced union workers and pay them contracted wages, insurance and pension benefits. It extends through July 1, 2015…
“You can’t force a private employer to abide by that contract,” [Commonwealth] spokesman Kevin Harley said. “If the Legislature passes a law privatizing the Liquor Control Board, that’s the idea of it: It gets the state out of it. Private sector workers are not state workers with generous wages, benefits and pensions.”
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EDITOR: We don’t see it that way. The state may end up paying people for three years for sitting at home.
