Posted on 07/20/2025 4:37:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Guess who runs California? Officially, it's the governor and the political class, i.e. the legislature. But it's actually the public sector unions. I guess that's what happens when they organize the vote drive and get the folks out to vote. Here is the story:
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is incapable of getting his employees to show up to the office more than two days a week. This is an indictment of his leadership and reveals a flaw that should be fatal to his presidential aspirations. It is also an indictment of the California Democratic Party, which has shown itself to be a wholly owned subsidiary of powerful government unions.
This March, just weeks before the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office projected current and “persistent” deficits of between $10 billion and $20 billion a year, Newsom issued an executive order directing all agency heads to update telework policies to require staff to be in their offices four days a week rather than two days, as is now the case. Agency heads were given three months to get this done, with an implementation deadline of July 1.
California’s government unions, SEIU Local 1000 most prominent among them, vowed to block Newsom’s order, and many elected Democrats in Sacramento joined the fight on the unions’ side. Several government employee unions filed grievances with the state, while others sued. The unions spent more than $30,000 on billboards that were posted in Sacramento attacking Newsom for supposedly creating traffic jams by forcing workers to go to their place of work.
Sure enough, Newsom buckled under this pressure and capitulated. He delayed the return to work by a year, giving unions more time to flex their political muscles and prepare for another fight.
Government unions are big business in California. Combined, the California Teachers Association,
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If they are not working, they are not interfering with people’s lives.
Cali’s suckup govt unions, SEIU Local 1000 most prominent among them, vowed to block Newsom’s back-to-work order, and many elected Democrats in Sacramento joined the fight on the unions’ side.
<><>Several government employee unions filed grievances with the state,
<><>while other unions sued.
<><>unions spent more than $30,000 on billboards posted in Sacramento
<><>they attacked Newsom for supposedly “creating traffic jams”
<><>b/c he “forced” govt workers to go to work.
<><>Newsom buckled under this pressure and capitulated.
<><>He delayed the return to work by a year,
<><>this gave unions more time to flex their political muscles and prepare for another fight.
What leadership? You would get better leadership from a college football cheerleading team. Much better.
I have the feeling that the era of Newsome’s political style has started to fall out of favor— People like the more genuine approach of Trump, and the results of his actions on their behalf.
His aides probably did the same thing that Hollywood did, they hired according to discriminatory characteristics.
E.g., HR mandates that every dept have XX% of some “protected class”. An incoming employee is told that and there is ample docs in HR substantiating it.
So, if times change and you try and fire for silly things like productivity or competence, they can point to the hiring rules and themselves and ask: “Wut, have I changed?”. So, you cannot fire them. You will be sued into oblivion — IN PUBLIC!!
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