I haven’t read it yet, but heard on radio that Arnold wants to cut 100,000 state employees back to Minimum wage...the fed minimum of 6.? per hour not the California 8.00 an hour. If so, I think it’s great! The dems will never let that happen.
IMO, it’s a PR stunt that just adds to the media circus by riling up the union workers and others. He’s run out of cash to pay employees, so now is proposing “minimum wage” instead of just cutting back. FYI, he still has to pay them the full amount, retroactively, once the budget is passed so any pay reduction is purely temporary.
Pete Wilson had to issue IOUs when he couldn’t get the Republicans to go along with a tax increase and get the budget passed on time. This is a similar move. (Petey’s IOU solution was judged to be in violation of labor laws).