Posted on 10/22/2009 7:49:12 AM PDT by SmithL
Just look at what has happened to state workers and their unions in 2009: Furloughs. Looming layoffs. Columbus Day and Lincoln's Birthday erased from the paid holiday calendar. New rules that make it harder to earn overtime.
It's never a good sign when the court bench becomes labor's focus instead of the bargaining table. Unions are party to most of the 21 furlough lawsuits statewide arguing that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's policy is illegal or ill-conceived.
If you think unions have ruined government, you're rooting for the governor to win. If you're one of the state's 200,000 or so union-covered employees, you're ticked that the state is balancing the books on your paycheck – and the union's only recourse is to sue your boss.
Even your biggest ally in the Legislature, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, hasn't helped you.
The Sacramento Democrat used to be an attorney for Service Employees International Union Local 1000, California's biggest public employee labor group. His district is loaded with state workers. His office's power is second only to Schwarzenegger's, a governor whose public popularity is neck-and-neck with journalists, the balloon boy's dad and the H1N1 virus.
Still, Steinberg backed changing the state's overtime pay rules and trimming the number of paid holidays. It was part of the give-and-take of governing during the February budget crisis. Besides, how can government cut, say, health care for kids and leave state workers untouched?
"The choices were stark," Steinberg said during a recent interview in his Capitol office.
Furloughs were different.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
The useless blood sucking parasites are crying that their victim is now severely anemic.
Boo.
Hoo.
The lesson is becoming abundantly clear...
When you make a deal with Democrats....
Expect it to be broken at the next
expedient opportunity.
for example:
Big Pharma
Insurance Companies
AMA
Unions
etc.etc.etc.
They got Billions from the stimulus and now getting furloughs.
Sounds like paid vacations to me.
Just...wow
“Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, hasn’t helped you.”
Did anyone really expect him to pay the parasites with his own money? He ran out of other people’s money.
Great analogy.
First, note the accusatory "you" in the first sentence. Then, of course, note that it takes sides with the union, with no pretense to the otherwise, and uses a whopper of a false premise to do so.
I suspect that this article was drafted by the unions and forwarded to their allies at the (financially foundering) Sacramento Bee.
On any day, I would match the Sac Bee to the NYT for activist hatred of the American way.
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How many straight state workers are angry that they are now getting “Harvey Milk Day” instead of President’s Day and Columbus Day?
I also think that state workers get far too many paid holidays, but taking away very traditional ones and shoving Harvey Milk Day at them is obscene.
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