“Labor unions believe the furloughs already are illegal”
Unions are a big part of the problem but not the only one. There has been to much spending going on in the past. Arnold needs to cut everywhere including “entitlements”.
Agreed but it's not so much the spending as what the spending is on. If a government worker costs $80k/year in salary, benefits, and pension, as a rule of thumb the fair market value of their work output is lucky to be $40k. The other $40k of taxpayer wealth just went poof, never to be seen from again. Most government workers are fat lazy money pits that aren't missed when they are on personal holidays 1 out of 5 workdays. Long time government nine-to-fivers couldn't get a job in the private sector.