Kern union votes to strike (2nd largest county in Ca. + video)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Bakersfield Californian

Retirement and pay issues top concerns of workers

BY JEFF NACHTIGAL, Californian staff writer

Kern County's general employees want to be treated as equals to safety employees when it comes to pay and retirement benefits.


Photo by Jeff Nachtigal

On Saturday members of the Service Employees International Union delivered their message in a resounding vote to dismiss the latest contract proposal by the county and strike.

On Saturday 83.5 percent of Local 521 union members voted to authorize a strike, said union spokeswoman Aimee Barajas.

Close to half of the local's 3,700 dues-paying members voted to strike, according to Barajas.




Read more: http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/221585.html

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Video at link.

[Cleita]

1. Yet, they will still vote for Repub tool Kevin Shelley as their

Congressional representative, a bootlick of retired Congressman Bill Thomas. I have no sympathy for them.

[David__77]

2. Don't hold it against all of them.

I consider Kern County to be California's own little hades, but there are certainly some good people there for whatever reason lol

Delano and other little towns in the west county are almost all Latino and very Democratic. The whites of Kern are about as progressive as the whites of rural Mississippi, however.

[Cleita]

3. No kidding!

They swarm our beaches along with Fresno people (the white freepers with money, not the poor agricultural workers)every weekend. Our dunes' delicate ecology are destroyed by their off road vehicles and the emergency rooms of our tiny local hospitals fill up with the injured "valley" people who get hurt with their mechanical beach bulls and if you ask me their stupidity.

[jamesinca]

4. I would be one of those dolts

Ok, I am not a freeper, I don't own a "beach bull" and I have never been hospitalized while on vacation around Morro Bay with my family. I don't destroy the ecology either to the best of my knowledge, but I am one of those people. I plan on trashing San Francisco on the weekend of Sept 8 at the Chocolate Festival being hosted by Ghirardelli and taking place in and around Ghirardelli Square. God help San Francisco, a valley person is coming LOL

[Cleita]

5. I know there are non-freeper valley people, but I do

sympathize with you that you have to live with them 24/7. We only have to put up with them on weekends and holidays. :-)