All of you are going to be a lot angrier in a year or so. You can’t make people who have no money pay taxes they can’t pay to give you exhorbitant salaries you don’t deserve to sit around doing virtually nothing.
Government bow wows think we work for them.
Maybe it’s time for them to seek employment elsewhere.
How exactly can you tell if a union state employee is on strike? Drinking coffee and sitting on their butts outside the building?
If someone is so concerned about money, then why go on strike and make no money, especially in an economy in which it is so easy to find replacement workers no less?
California is in trouble because they did SEIU’s bidding, and they are angry about it?
Simple solution, the legislature either just makes it illegal for them to strike, or they can make California a right to work state and fire their butts!
This is why government employees should NOT be allowed to unionize.
There is an unfair advantage to public employee unions.
The tax payers do not get a say in setting their pay or working conditions.
It is too easy to “bribe” by way of campaign donations the legislature. Since the money for pay and benefits is not coming out of their pockets they (the legislature) has no incentive to keep control of either.
I am at the point of saying if public employees want to go on strike, go for it. I no longer care.
Service is usually bad now when ever you have to deal with a public employee so how much worse can it get?
Maybe they’d like to see a chart showing the decline in TAX revenues from the layoffs/firings/reduced pay coming from the PRIVATE sector and business moving out of California! You know, the revenues that pay their salaries.
Why are public employees allowed to join a union anyway?
When these people have been through the kind of layoff that is routine in Silicon Valley, I might lend an ear. They make more money than the private sector, they have better working conditions, they have massive retirements, not a few revel in the pleasure of visiting pain upon the public, they have plump healthcare policies, and are almost impossible to fire regardless of how incompetent, wicked, or malfeasant they might be...
...and they bitch when the system collapses under their fat asses.
It just breaks my heart; fire them all and start over. At this point, there is no other way to save this state, not just from insolvency, but from the damage they do.
[They intend to protest mandatory furloughs by taking voluntary furloughs?]
When in the path of lemmings, sometimes it’s best to just stand aside.
As a California resident, I have two things to say,
1) Let them strike.
2) Let the state go bankrupt.
Just keep voting communist and you can stop protesting.
Where these Democratic voters gonna go, to a red state? Arnie the RINO is on the right track, bleed these overpaid, over pensioned social worker do-harmers and their unions dry. Dems are in a pickle, cut welfare bennies, school bennies or pay for their hacks, or they gonna raise the taxes on their rich base?
Well, if they are unhappy with it they could always quit.
Things may have gotten a bit too thick this time for the usual rants, threats and complaints by those poor, mistreated union types. The public ain’t gonna listen.
You can't furlough us, we strike!
The State people should all park their cars on the freeway, blocking traffic into Sacramento. That way the guy who works for that private company downtown won’t be able to get to his job.
I hope they strike and seal their fate.