Posted on 09/12/2007 10:02:44 AM PDT by SmithL
An effort by the state correctional officers union to short-circuit the collective bargaining process and get the Legislature to give them a pay raise failed early Wednesday in the final press of legislative business.
Amid early-morning confusion over the contents of the bill, both houses adjourned after 3 a.m. without approving a newly crafted measure that sought to give the CCPOA's 31,000 members a 3.5 percent raise retroactive to April 1 and another 6.1 percent increase that goes back to July 1.
CCPOA officials said the bill would have cost $327 million through July 2008.
Schwarzenegger had vowed Tuesday to veto the legislation if it made its way through the Assembly and Senate.
"There's a lot of ifs, but let me just tell you, I am against the unions going around the process after they have not gotten what they wanted," Schwarzenegger said.
"To go around the process directly to the legislators and in the dark of night to go and start brewing up some bill, I think that is the wrong way to go."
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Finally, Arnie says something that I agree with.
Unions are the storm troopers of liberalism........
Finally they finally said no to a union. But, I am sure it will come around again real soon. Just like the legislature has a new homo marriage bill every other week here.
Given that the union’s leadership’s butts are on the line to bring home additional bacon to its rank and file, this issue isn’t dead.
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