Jerry Brown tells unions to brace for California state worker pay cuts

SacBee: The State Worker ^ | 5/9/12 | Jon Ortiz

[SmithL]

State workers' compensation is back on the budget chopping block.

Brown administration officials met with the state employee union leaders last week, according to sources familiar with the meetings, to warn them that the next version of the governor's budget will include an unspecified cut in employee costs up to 10 percent.

The administration in January estimated that California is confronting a $9.2 billion deficit through 2012-13, but a recent state analysis concluded the actual gap is considerably more.

The sources, who declined to talk on the record because the administration asked all involved to keep the discussions secret, said Brown told the unions he was seeking $750 million in state employee cost savings for fiscal 2012-13.

The sources said the Brown administration asked union leaders to come up with ways to make the reduction -- pay cuts or higher benefit contributions, for instance.

[SmithL]

Jerry Brown tells unions to brace for more insincere chatter about California state worker pay cuts

[going hot]

Let’s see. 9 Bil in deficit, and Moonbeam is asking for 750M from unions. Sounds like his math has not improved since his first two terms.

[Pox]

Brown will never put serious cuts on the table that will piss off those who got him elected as he knows that they will simply back another commie who will keep the spigot wide open.

[MichaelCorleone]

Cali will turn into another Greece, just wait. Race riots, union temper tantrums, rolling power black outs, you name it.

Followed by Illinois and New York.

[Lancey Howard]

LMAO!!
Yeah, sure.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

that’s code/extra motivation to get out the vote for Brown’s tax increases....

[Redcloak]

Now the question is: Is Uncle Jerry serious about making cuts? Or is this just a ploy to extract a little extra Mordida out of the unions?

[VRWC For Truth]

Ruhro, Richard Trumka to the white courtesy telephone.

[dragnet2]

Cali will turn into another Greece

In Greece, 1 in 3 worked for the government. You're probably right, government implodes.

[oyez]

Gov. Brown don’t want to be singing the recall blues. (That is if they do recall in CA)

[funfan]

Well all I can say is my husband got a 28% pay cut a few years back and we just had to deal with it and scale our budget back except our property tax and sales tax and keep going up here in California I wonder if Brown is bothered
by that or the union employees whose salaries my family pays for.

[cableguymn]

(That is if they do recall in CA)

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Uhh... Remember Gray out Davis... Arnold...

is it coming back to you yet? ;)

[TMD]

California is run by the “Cali-ban”.....

[pterional]

The Sodomites are running the state into third world status. The scariest thing is that crime is becoming rampant and home break-ins and home invasions are becoming common place. Government officials know this and it is a way of destroying your property rights.There isn't enough jail space to hold all the criminals so the thieves go in and out of jail like a revolving door.

The Unions have infiltrated everything from law enforcement, education and health-care. The union mentality is a culture of mediocracy that always leads to failure.

[Ken H]

The scariest thing is that crime is becoming rampant...

The murder rate has been falling for years in CA. In 2010, it was 4.9 per 100,000. For the entire US, the figure is 4.8 per 100,000.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm

[kearnyirish2]

“Race riots, union temper tantrums, rolling power black outs, you name it.”

There are less whites to chase down (for a beating or a tax extortion).

[kearnyirish2]

I think the opening of the prisons a couple of years ago, coupled with the (actually caused by) the fiscal crisis, made CA a pariah for businesses; even without the onerous taxes and regulations, there is no way to protect company assets and workers (and the bankrupt state can’t help).

[Mister Da]

You are right, & those states are praying “Bailout” Obama will be reelected.

[Joan Kerrey]

California needs to drastically speed up high speed rail.
We need the profit from the ticket sales, NOW!!! /S

[dragnet2]

You're not paying attention. Crime in CA has been dropping for a decade.

In fact most big midwest and east coast cities has substantially more crime per capita than big cities like LA, CA.

Latest 2006 Crimes per 100,000 People:

	St. Louis, MO	Los Angeles, CA	National
Murder:	37.2	12.4	7
Forcible Rape:	97.15	27.3	32.2
Robbery:	907.2	370	205.8
Aggravated Assault:	1439.1	377.2	336.5
Burglary:	2453.3	524.8	813.2
Larceny Theft:	6802.4	1539.2	2601.7
Vehicle Theft:	2492.2	654.4	501.5