Posted on 01/28/2009 2:38:23 PM PST by SmithL
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned Wednesday that if public employee unions don't accept twice-monthly furloughs, he will lay off state workers to reduce salary costs by more than a billion dollars.
The Republican governor signed an executive order last month requiring 238,000 state workers to take two unpaid days off each month starting in February. His order also mandated that the state send warning letters to state workers with the least seniority notifying them that their jobs were threatened.
Labor unions are fighting the governor's furlough order in Sacramento Superior Court, where a judge is expected to rule this week whether Schwarzenegger's plan is constitutional. The governor said that if he loses the case, he will pursue layoffs instead.
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Schwarzenegger talks tough doesn’t he.
We have a budget that has doubled over the last ten years, and all they can cut are essential services.
Has he submitted a full budget, the way he thinks it should be balanced?
I’d love to see a copy of that.
My wife works with disabled people. They have had their fund frozen for the last ten years. While the state expenditures doubled, her programs funding didn’t. So now they want to start cutting her budget.
No. They should cut the budgets of the agencies whose budgets doubled over the last ten years. Roll them back to 2002 or so, and be done with it. There’s just no excuse for our budget going up more than about 25% max, in ten years.
That would require wisdom and spine, neither of which the girly-man has.
Sadly, can’t argue with that.
Just lay the bastards off.
Remember that a lot of these people are necessary - certainly not all.
We need to be careful about little things like hospitals, police, and national guardsmen...
Why is that hard? Keep the necessary people, and lay off the dead weight. There is a LOT of bureaucratic overhead.
:-) I didn’t say it was hard, I said we need to be careful.
The concern I have is that they are getting into such a shoving match that they may be forced into drastic ill-conceived cuts rather than properly evaluating their position. If this thing drags out much longer the state is going to be in a tight corner.
Fortunately, it looks like Gov S got a win in court this morning, and they can move forward with the temp furloughs.
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