New Report Confirms LA Dept. Water and Power Compensation Highest in Nation

By Robert Fellner
03/25/2015
Phase I of a comprehensive benchmarking report on the LADWP was just released by the City of Los Angeles. The report itself confirmed a few things most ratepayers already know – that the LADWP’s payroll costs are dramatically higher than that of their peers and their customer service is quite poor. Previously, in my study, Examining Public...

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Examining Public Pay in California: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

By Robert Fellner
03/18/2015
Summary:  The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) is the nation’s largest municipal utility, but it may also be one of the clearest examples of excessive public pay driven by powerful public sector unions. This paper analyzes the pay received by DWP employees to their non-DWP counterparts and finds that the average DWP...

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Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power – Unions vs. Ratepayers

By Scott Walter
05/22/2014
Where are the charity watchdogs in L.A.? An ugly story from the City of Angels reminds us once again of how dangerous “public-private partnerships” can be, especially that worst of all such partnerships: government employee unions in bed with government officials. The government of Los Angeles has long granted a monopoly to the Department of...

TAGS: IBEW, ladwp, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power