Posted on 05/28/2026 7:45:19 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A state worker union hopes to use a California environmental law notorious for obstructing the construction of new homes to block a very different kind of project: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s impending return-to-office order. On Wednesday, the union representing state attorneys and administrative law judges sent “exhaustion” letters to over 100 state departments, arguing that the return-to-office order will require more than 90,000 state workers to commute four days a week, which will negatively impact California’s environment.
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Good.
With gas over $6.00/gallon in California, maybe they’ll think twice about WHO they voted for.
State government employees, as in parasites.
If they can work from home, their jobs should not be locked to California people only.
gotta admit the Cali state employees have a very creative lawyer, ha!
(while such a far-out claim reveals the attorney’s lack of any serious cause of action, it will give the judge a chuckle or two...smiles smiles)
If they go on strike will anyone notice?
EC
They won’t.
Just another example why decent, hard working productive Americans are justified to resent paying taxes.
‘Rat fight! video at 10!” Don’t you love trouble in our enemies’ tent?
Fight for the right to “not” work from home and still draw full pay.
Work from home has been the most unproductive thing ever push on the workplace and the deadbeats are so addicted, they fight any attempt to make them work again.
Lawyers and judges don’t want to show up for work. All trying to qualify for seats in Congress.
The inability or difficulty involved to fire government workers is a bane on the taxpayer.
Fight for the right to “not” work from home and still draw full pay.
Avg Calif state employee $143,000
Order?
I’ll take “How to fund the CA state government at 61.2 cents per gallon”, Alex...
That could be interesting:
“The good news is, you can work from home. The bad news is, you’re all fired and will need to re-apply for your jobs, because we are now looking at virtual workers anywhere in the country. (Or world).
Now you sure you don’t want to drive into the office?”
No, they won’t.
I find this an excellent use of Alinsky’s rules.
I am all for this, in California.
“I retired at 50 at then end of 2019, but still do gig work in the Winters for one of my former clients - a Fortune 500. They had RTO a couple of years ago, but still had many remote workers who didn’t, nor ever had, worked very close to any of the regional offices. “
If they were hired remote and not given an incentive to live closer to glass tower in the sky, what exactly is the motivation to move towards an urban hell hole (or just 2 hours of commuting per day).
When we were given RTO instructions they were not return to the Jan 2020 status quo, they were to return to office spaces that had shrank by 40% despite the workforce growing by 30%. When 3 of the elevators to floors 30-45 went out of serive on the trial date of RTO, the employees all had certain words to the middle manangers who were told to enforce RTO.
As a IT infrastructure worker, the office is the place to sit around for the events on the weekends, that are completed 100% remote. The IT workers were doing 80 hours a week, weekdays full of pushing laptop applications and doing basic suitability testing for better part of 2 years after March 2020. The next 4 years has been catching up on upgrades that were pushed aside during 2020-2022, just now the schedule is such that 2 days of meetings once a month, lunches and power design sessions in the office is important again. Otherwise when America outsourced the industry it was proven it could be done remotely.
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