Posted on 06/22/2004 9:04:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
MEMBERS RESISTING STATE'S CALL FOR BUDGET CONCESSIONS
Hefty salary increases that outpaced most state workers have made California's prison guards among the highest-paid prison guards in the country. Now, some of the lawmakers who once gladly accepted donations from the guard union are siding with the governor's call to reject an estimated 11 percent pay raise due July 1.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
A long read w/ background info re; how we got where we are today.
I expect to see the Guards lose their pay raise.
Had to register to read the article, but very interesting reading. Just call me Harry Carey, with a brand new AOL.com email address. :)
Outsource.
OH you might not know that Former Govenor davis, shut down 5 prisions that were outsourced with non union labor, 24 hours after he recieved like a million dollar donation from the prison gaurds union. He stated ... there was no quid pro quo..
"A long read w/ background info re; how we got where we are today."
You're already finished. I was back in California a couple weeks ago. You've already been annexed by Mexico, and what's not Mexcian is largely populated by wussy panty-waists and tofu-eating lunatics who are into New Age philosophies and leftist extremism. It's a shame, because California was, at one time, paradise. When it ceased to be paradise, many years ago, I left it for good, and now only go there on business and family matters.
Correct.
Correct. We'll see if Arnold has the balls to reverse that decision, and then some.
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