Maybe guy's like this will do 20% less work.
Posted on 07/09/2009 7:53:47 AM PDT by SmithL
State workers, brace yourselves for another furlough day.
The governor's latest budget proposal assumes almost 20 percent in employee wage cuts: 15 percent from the three-day furloughs that started this month, plus another 5 percent across-the-board whack.
"Three days (furlough) plus the 5 percent," said H.D. Palmer, Department of Finance spokesman when asked Wednesday to clarify the governor's budget proposal.
The Legislature won't go for the pay cut, but the governor can then add a furlough day for reasons we'll explain.
State employee union leaders say Schwarzenegger is abusing his authority and stiffing state workers once again.
"It's outrageous," said Bruce Blanning, executive director of the state's engineers' union. "He's trying to destroy public service by trying to destroy those who provide those services."
Yvonne Walker, president of the 95,000-member Service Employees International Union Local 1000, said, "He's using bully tactics and playing state workers as pawns."
Last May the governor proposed a 5 percent cut on top of what were then twice-monthly furloughs. The proposal was dead from the start; everyone knew the Democratic-controlled Legislature would never go for it. "State workers," as one Capitol Republican staffer told me, "are their constituents."
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fire the assembly and senators
Ahnold - take the average pay/benefits in the private sector and make that your target. Or else do not allow the employment of the State to exceed, say, 1% of the population of Caleeforneea. That might mean layoffs, but...oh, well!
I’d be happy if they just cut the length of time the legislatures were in session. Less chance to damage the state by passing legislation. Other states do fine without full time legislatures, we can do so too.
Put the retirement benefits in their place. Don’t let folks collect until they’re at least 55.
They should cut the pensions of the people sitting home on their butts, before they cut the salaries of those currently working.
Maybe guy's like this will do 20% less work.
Say the employee makes $20 dollars per hour. 3 days x $20 x 8 hpd= $480.00 for 3-8 hr days.
52 weeks x 5 days per week x $160 = $41,600 x 15% = $6240.
How the hell did they comne up with those percentages??
Give up, CA, and accept your doom. Should the rest of us be legislated to pay your bills by our inept and crooked congress, Ft Sumpter-2 day will surely arrive.
Interesting math.
My take is this: 22 work days per month = full pay. 1/22 = 1 day of pay = 4.5%. 4.5 x 3 = 13.5%.
Apparently, the big banks, B of A, Wells, ? will not accept the IOU’s after this Friday.
Some state employees have already taken a near 20% pay cut, being furloughed already for two days a month.
Some of this seems unfair, but some of it results from the limitations that the governor has to act on his own authority, given existing laws, civil service rules, union contracts and such.
The legislature knows this, knows that some of it seems unfair and knows that it is the governor who will continue to take the hit for it, in spite of the fact that some of what seems unfair results from limitations in his legal range of actions.
Maybe beside the Dim leaders, the GOP legislative leaders are also just as happy to let this seem to be the Governors’ crisis more than theirs, because he is the one left to try to take SOME action somewhere, so anyone affected will look right past the legislature and blame the man than did the cuts.
I hear it personally from a sister in California who is paid by the state, is already on two-days-a-month furlough and additionally ticked-off because the pay cuts are affecting her defined-benefit pension because her actual pay for her last year is being cut, and her benefit is defined with a formula weighted by her last year’s (this year’s) pay. Because of the state budget mess, she is delaying her retirement and starting her receipt of SS benefits, intending to accumulate them in savings as long as she keeps working.
I don’t argue with her, even though I know that no matter what happens her CA state pension will be more than any similar private sector worker could ever see. I have given up explaining to her how backward her economics knowledge is as she rants about how “unfair it is that the budget mess is being taken out on the backs of the state workers” (as if everyone else in the state could not only afford the taxes they used to pay, but in the present economy pay higher ones.
I also gave up explaining to her how the income taxes she pays are nothing more than a refund to the state for a portion of her income that COULD NOT EXIST were it not for the private economy, and their workers, in the first place - the private economy from which her income is extracted. Now that economy has contracted, but she expects the people who make-up that economy to continue he tax-supported income, no matter what.
In my sisters case, since she is already 65, my objective opinion would be that she is a type of state worker who should be simply forced to take their retirement now, leaving their desk vacant until the state can get its budget in order. I think their union contract protects her from that happening. Too bad. (I don’t say this to her)
LOL, state “workers”...
If only Generalissimo Francisco Francofornia would finally die and go bankrupt, perhaps REAL solutions to its budget problems could be initiated, beginning with the dismantling of the obscene pension and lifetime health care benefits for those “retirees” who never figured out that they could “hurt their backs” at 28 and start collecting their kiss in the mail from normal taxpayers right away.
I didn’t realize the intention was for this to occur for a full year.
Now we should fire EVERY state worker not directly involved in public safety and re-post their jobs at -25% of the current rate...and only a 50% match of the first 5% of their new 401k.
No new retirees. None. Never again.
Those who are now eligible...or who are now drawing a pension should have that reduced by 25% and ALSO have the maximum payout capped at $50k/yr. As for lifetime free medical...eliminate it and let them sign up for the state group plan...at reduced rates, of course:)
Now we’re talking. Keep going until we get a balanced budget. If the SEIU doesn’t like it, their members can go find jobs elsewhere.
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