Schwarzenegger to state workers: Work more for same pay

[marmar]

from the Sacramento Bee:



Schwarzenegger to state workers: Work more for same pay

By Jon Ortiz
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Published: Saturday, May. 15, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1A


State employees would work more starting in July but their take-home pay would remain the same under a new cost-cutting policy laid out Friday in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's revised 2010-11 budget proposal.

With California facing a $19.1 billion general fund deficit, the Republican governor wants to put employees on a "personal leave" program that would subtract a day's wages from their monthly paychecks in exchange for eight hours of floating time off.

Those reductions would come on top of others Schwarzenegger proposed in January: a 5 percent pay cut for all state workers' pay and boosting what employees kick in to their pensions by 5 percent of their earnings.

Taken together, workers would continue to see their pay reduced by about 15 percent, but would have one day off a month instead of the three they have now. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/05/15/2752360/schwarzenegger-to-state-workers.html#ixzz0o05EnBUL

[saltpoint]

1. Note to California voters: it might be a really good idea if you stopped

electing conservative actors to be your governors.

Just sayin'.

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Recommended.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Stop with the conservatives, period

Did ya love Pete Wilson? He's poised to be back in power with Meg. Did you love Duke? Feel free to vote Meg, she fills your needs, but not mine. I do not give a fuck what a Republican does for a living, no matter what, they are still just Republicans to me. No modifier needed. No subset is worse than another. They need to stop electing Republicans.

[saltpoint]

9. Got it.

[Township75]

2. Sounds like what everyone in the private sector in the country has heard.

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[dems_rightnow]

3. Yup

Raises are hard to come by.

[Township75]

5. I had to take a new job to get a raise. The recruiter told me

that was the case for everyone he came into contact with...if you want to increase your salary you better jump to a new job.

Oh, and the place I left had a hiring freeze, salary freeze, and layoffs for over a year, but announced record profits the month before I left.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. And other parts of the public sector in California as well

[Captain Hilts]

4. It's the same way with private sectors jobs. nt

[Lucky Luciano]

6. Schwarzenegger is between a rock and a hard place.

Definitely has a lot of unpleasant choices to make in one of the states hardest hit by the recession.

[HelenWheels]

10. Californians screwed themselves

long ago with Prop 13. If you don't pay enough in property taxes you have to cut every thing: wages, education, police and fire protection, etc.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Arnold is in office because of Democrats voting for him

And that is the fact. Democrats in CA also secured the passage of Prop 8. I suggest that CA Democrats take the time to review materials from Arnold's first run for Governor, and have total recall of his rhetoric. He claimed he could balance the budget without raising taxes, and without raising auto registrations, which was a huge issue at the time. Arnie said the State's problems were all a matter of cutting out 'fat' and waste, which he claimed he could do in a short time, without much loss of services, because money was just being wasted, he claimed.
His promises were detailed, his accusations against Davis were specific. And yet Arnold has failed to deliver on any of his many grand promises.
He came to pump you up, but instead he bled you dry.

[Bitwit1234]

12. This is nothing new

In the 1980's an a**hole named William Donald Schafer did the same thing to State workers in Maryland. For almost 100 years the workers had a 35 1/2 hour work week. Because of Reagan's tax cuts the state had a shortfall. All that money that used to come from the rich was cut. So Schafer took it into his head to balance the budget on the State workers head by first making them take five days of unpaid leave. Then he raised the work week to 40 hours. Thereby cutting their pay. Which in my case cut my salary from 11.63 (which was good money in that day) an hour to 9.20...A salary cut of $80.00 a week. How was that fair.

So I say what Arnold is doing was done by Schafer and it never even got a mention in the news. Cause Reagan A REPUBLICAN was president.

[msongs]

13. furloghs/reduced pay MUST include reduced responsibilities/work load nt