This guy Pulaski is not a government employee - he's a union thug. California Federation of Labor (CFL is a statewide branch of AFL-CIO).
Here's another question: since when are companies who employ people supposed to "care" about them?
I am coming up on 18 years working for a HUMONGOUS company here in California. The first seven years were great - we really felt that "The Company" "caaared" about us. With the end of the Cold War and the cuts in defense spending, we had a very rude awakening. While your individual manager or supervisor may give a rat's patoot about you, they're nearly as powerless as you are. The big suits up in the corner offices are only looking at the bottom line.