(CA) Governor changes strategy on lunch law (Dropped after Protests)

[RamboLiberal]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/21/BAGFCAF5701.DTL

The Schwarzenegger administration, under fire for attempting a quick rule change that would weaken the state law that guarantees lunch breaks for workers, backed off its plan for the emergency order on Monday.

Instead, state officials say they will pursue changes to the lunch-break law under regular, drawn-out procedures that give the public an opportunity to weigh in at public hearings and during a public comment period.

"We wanted to make sure all the interested parties had a chance to have their concerns heard," said Dean Fryer, spokesman for the state Department of Industrial Relations, the agency overseeing the division that proposed the emergency rule change two weeks ago, prompting sharp criticism from labor groups and Democrats.

Fryer said the department switched course after receiving a high volume of calls from people concerned about the proposed changes to the lunch law.

Labor organizations claimed a victory Monday.

[gWbush is Mabus]

1. but what about the lunch crisis - we need lunchtime "reform"

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Damn Liberal Luncheaters

:argh:

[jayfish]

3. TRANSLATION:

We will passively listen to what the focus groups have to say and make the change anyway.

Jay

[happynewyear]

4. thank God for those "labor organizations"

UNION YES!!! Now we know why don't we?

:kick:

[driver8]

9. Amen, my union brother!

I am an Iatse union member...

How dare these workers demand a lunch break. Can't these girly men go 8 or 10 hours without a meal? What is this world coming to?

Do you guys think Arnold works alll day without a lunch break?

[Journeyman]

5. This from the Governator who wants a "part time" legislature. . .

because governing would be so much easier if he didn't have to contend with competing ideas.

I hope my fellow Californians see the fallacy of this man's ideas and turn him out in 2006.

[salin]

6. What they aren't saying...

is that he backed off when he realized that someday he would be back to making movies, and would lose the opportunity for a quick grope if the ladies working on the film didn't have time for lunch...

[NYC]

13. Screen Actors Guild mandates lunch.

Typical Republican attitude. He gets lunch; the rest of you can fend for yourselves.

[tanyev]

7. I thought only girlie men

backed off from things. Or negotiate with themselves.

[livinginphotographs]

8. "Interested parties"??!! WTF???!!

"We wanted to make sure all the interested parties had a chance to have their concerns heard"

You mean the people who's lunch breaks will be taken away? I'd say that would make them pretty fucking interested.

More fascist doublespeak. It's funny how during the Clinton years, all I heard was comparisons to liberals and 1984. What a surprise that the right-wing ended up being the fascists all along.

[driver8]

10. I am so sick of this crap...

These politicians just take, take, take from the people they are supposed to represent. Who the fuck is looking out for the interests of the "average american family"?

Soon, we are going to have about 5 corporations running everything. Society will be seperated into two classes -- those that run the corporations and the rest of us poor slobs who work for whatever meager scraps they wish to throw to us.

Wake up America -- this is just a small example of where these assholes want to lead this country.

I live in California and I cannot believe that the people of this state elected this dipshit as governor. I cannot wait to vote him out of office.

[w4rma]

11. This guy has done *nothing* good for that state as of yet.

Just alot of photo ops and policy to screw over regular Americans.

[caligirl]

12. It's not over, Arnold forced to screw with labor rights in the open. n/t

[NYC]

14. Second California governor to attack lunch.

Reagan = No free lunch.
Schwarzenneger = No lunch at all.

[Anakin Skywalker]

15. Girls Just Wanna Have LUNCH!

- Weird Al Yankovic parodying the famous Cyndi Lauper song.

[OneBlueSky]

16. ok . . . tell me again what it is about Ahnold that qualifies him . . .

in any way to be governor of anything? . . . just wonderin' . . .

[TO Kid]

17. Doe Ahnold know the meaning of "emergency"

What kind of "emergency" requires an overnight change in labour laws?

[Merlot]

20. It's an emergency when you don't want the working population

to know that you're taking away their lunch and you have to do it REALLY quickly before they know what happened.

And, it's an emergency if you want to do it before the papers start reporting on it and LTTE start showing up.

It would be an emergency if arnie became "the governer who took away lunch breaks" although I think it would make a great campaign slogan.

[Hotler]

18. It's mind numbing how much...

the repugs hate labor. All labor not just the unions. Arnold is a fucking ass! The problem with pricks like arnold, delay, newt, grover, chaney, frist, rove, is no one has stood up and bloodied any of their noses.

[yorkiemommie1]

19. he eats hearty

slurp, slurp and burp, arnie boy! i know people who've seen you eat!

i emailed them to the effect that no meal breaks at all should be provided since people should eat in their cars on the way to work. no pottie breaks either so as to save time, water and paper.

gawd, they might take this seriously, ya think!

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[zann725]

22. OMG! Ahnnald ceases to amaze me! First he reverses Gray Davis' overtime

pay protection for workers. Now he wants to take away required lunch breaks?!!!! That's a "sweatshop" move. All of a sudden these Repugs are so outrageous in their curtailment of basic human rights. Guess now that they have this "election rigging thing" down to an art, they no longer have to hide the ugliness of their true "agendas."