The SEIU is basically Communist front group and an adjunct of the Democrat Party masquerading as a labor union .
They control the hiring of government employees because they control the HR departments so it's easy for them manufacturer fake jobs and fill them with phantom workers.
In California, the illegal alien fake identity industry is working hand in hand with the SEIU to produce fraudulent identity documents for illegals indistinguishable from official state documents because corrupt SEIU workers in the state government are colluding with the fraudulent ID industry and issuing official California state ID docs to illegals.
California is barred by California law from investigating the legitimacy of the residents ID because millions of people California are illegal aliens.
Once the illegals have their fake IDs they are able to sign up for California state welfare, often under multiple false identities. The SEIU quickly figured out that if they could easily issue fake IDs to illegal aliens, they could just as easily take advantage of California's de facto encouragement of identity fraud to issue false identity paper to themselves, their friends , family members and political allies.
Once they have fake identity papers they can get hired for no show jobs as phantom employees. They can also create another fake ID to get signed up for welfare as well.
The California political class is in collusion with the SEIU to look the other way because they are benefiting from the fraud.
This phantom worker fraud is enabled by the covid era remote work and the number of phantom workers has exploded since covid.
In fact, this system is so endemic and riddled. with fraud that the whole Gavin Newsome “Back to Work” law is probably motivated more by a desire to clean up the employee rolls and as a pretext to purge phantom workers off the payrolls in anticipation of Federal Dept of Justice investigations in California fraud and public corruption.
Otherwise it's hard to explain the sudden mass resignations of tens of thousands. California state and local government employees
Remote employees are easier to trace. Their IP address, their logins, multi-factor authentication, and every keystroke can be monitored and recorded for audits. Multi-factor authentication in particular is done each time the systems times out. Take a bathroom break, a lunch break, etc., and you need to reauthenticate to get access back into the system.
In person no-show jobs only require someone else swipe badges in at a building. (They don't even need to swipe out).