Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 08/24/2010 6:19:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved six contracts his administration negotiated with labor unions that include pay cuts and changes to state pensions.
Schwarzenegger on Monday signed bills authorizing the contracts for 37,000 employees.
The deals have varying provisions, including greater employee pension contributions, one day a month of unpaid leave and requiring employees to work an extra five years to qualify for full benefits.
Schwarzenegger is seeking broad pension reform and rewarded the unions that reached the deals by exempting them from his most recent furlough order.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfexaminer.com ...
This is about as good as Schwarzenegger gets.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved six contracts his administration negotiated with labor unions that include pay cuts and changes to state pensions... authorizing the contracts for 37,000 employees... varying provisions, including greater employee pension contributions, one day a month of unpaid leave and requiring employees to work an extra five years to qualify for full benefits... seeking broad pension reform and rewarded the unions that reached the deals by exempting them from his most recent furlough order.Nice effin' job by the Governator! Thanks BenLurkin.
“I think I have some scotch tape!” said the chief engineer of the RMS Titanic, while hanging from a deck railing at a 45 degree angle.
Seriously, unions were necessary once and are now the most vile of all organizations. I would be hard-pressed to restrain myself from violence if I ran into Andy Stern at the donut shop.
Unfortunately, we don’t know what Schwarzenegger gave them in return. I suspect he has agreed to sign several bills sitting on his desk that mandate that certain small business industries become unionized, like the fire sprinkler industry. Since new housing in California must now, by law, have fire sprinkler systems, this would be a nice influx of new union members—never mind the small businesses this will put out of business.
They could be a good thing if they were not legal monopolies. The key is to repeal parts of the NLRA.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.