On the Presidents Day holiday, “scores of state workers” (what, the reporter couldn’t count em?) rallied at the Capitol. Many were DOH employees worried that the recent sell-off of DOH equipment meant privatizing of some jobs.
“I don’t know where they get that idea,” said Delegate Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson.
How about selling off Worker’s Comp? How about creating centralized services that charge back to state agencies for their work? (as in the Office of Technology and Tourism’s media people) All through state government, positions on the books are vacant while contractors do those jobs, and Joe Manchin claims he’s cut state government.
Privatizing one step at a time.
