OT......But Gov. Quinn strikes again

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Saw this in the Belleville News Democrat today....Wasn't amused.

IDOT hiring 16 supervisors during budget crisis

The Associated Press

" Our guys already do all this work, " union attorney Ken told the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/pxuceW). " You're going to create 16 new

positions that are identical to what we already do. "

The new jobs will pay from $67,000 to $100,400 annually. The current field

engineers generally earn from about $50,000 to about $75,000.

IDOT spokesman Josh Kauffman denied the new non-union jobs are being created

because the field technicians were allowed to unionize.

" It's been in the works for a while. It's a supervisory role over the field

technicians, " Kauffman said. He characterized the new jobs as " crucial to state

operations, " but he couldn't cite any specific problems in the current road

maintenance system.

Kauffman said more than 300 applicants had applied for the 16 new jobs. The

state plans to fill them by mid-November, so they're in place before winter.

Clearing roads during winter is among the chief tasks of the workers who are

under the field technicians and will be under the new supervisors.

Sen. , R-Mount Vernon, criticized the Quinn administration for

creating these new jobs while a state budget crunch is forcing state government

to cut back elsewhere.

" Here we are laying people off and closing facilities, and they're duplicating

jobs, " said, adding, " We are setting a poor example. "

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