Comments on: County Executive Chris Collins aims for large savings in labor costs

By: Joe Genco

Joe Genco — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:45:35 +0000

Rus:
This is the man who applied for the job. We hired him. He will take lumps and is still in his honeymoon, but that’s OK. He will be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent (honestly, I hear him pledge it before he ever ran for office). In a perfect world, decisions like this validate my (and my wife’s) choice to settle here to raise our family rather than taking off for some plastic community filled with chain stores and insincere people.
It is a sign of hope.

By: WNY Voter

WNY Voter — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:47:00 +0000

What a relief to know the unions can’t insert themselves
into this. Maybe they’ll start to realize it’s their blood-sucking tendencies that have contributed largely to the demise of WNY.

By: Rus Thompson

Rus Thompson — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:44:16 +0000

and so many said you cannot run government like a business, when stuff like this needs to be done.

By: Pauldub

Pauldub — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:52:46 +0000

I like this guy more every day. C’mon, would you take 1 less hour a week, less time off, in exchange for FULLY PAID MEDICAL??? I imagine most would. What is the biggest cost today? Medical.
And I actually think when it comes bargaining time, He won’t engage in doomsday rhetoric in the media, and the unions will appreciate that. Nice to see a business approach instead of business as usual.