Schwarzenegger cuts 22,000 state temp jobs

[SandEagle]

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080731/california_budget.html

this is not good.... $6.55 in Cali? good luck people..

 

[lokiju]

California is so messed up.

 

[SSSnail]

Well, if he can work for free, they can pretend to work for $6.55. Lead by example, good man.

 

[Jeff7]

If they're useless jobs, good. Cut excess spending.

 

[T9D]

Bout time someone had the balls to do something.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

They'll go back to their normal pay once a budget is signed. But adding the workd temporarily to your subject line wouldn't have mad eit nearly as alarming.

 

[Number1]

Quote:

California is the last state with a fiscal year that begins July 1 that still does not have a budget.

Schwarzenegger also cited a 2003 California Supreme Court ruling allowing him to slash the pay of regular full-time employees when the state lacks a budget. By law, those workers must be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour and will be reimbursed once a budget is approved.


OP, your original comment is misleading. They will get more then $6.55 retroactively once the budget is in.
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[Baked]

Not like they do anything productive anyway.

 

[marvdmartian]

Originally posted by: v1001
Bout time someone had the balls to do something.

Agreed. While I lived in CA (80's and early 90's), they were VERY good at spending more than they brought in, then upping taxes......then not having enough sense to keep within their means, and spending more than they brought in AGAIN!! Add to that the "temporary" taxes I saw introduced, which I'd be willing to bet have NOT gone away yet (close to 20 years later), and it's just been year after year (and politician after politician) that has been fiscally irresponsible. IMHO, to the point of criminal neglect of their constituents!

It's high time that someone in CA takes the reins and says enough is enough. Hopefully the next thing they'll do is tell their special interest groups to stuff it, we're listening to the PEOPLE from now on!

 

[TehMac]

Arnold just pwned the damned bureaucrats.

Good luck to him, they're a whole slop.

 

[thegimp03]

Reminds me of Arnold's saying at the end of True Lies...."YOU'RE FIRED", as he fires a rocket with the bad guy holding on into a helicopter full of other bad guys.

 

[darkxshade]

Jobs TERMINATED!

 

[dartworth]

unemployment is more than minimum wage...

 

[ICRS]

Good thing we are exempt were I work. We are not under the authority of the governator.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Minimum wage is not 6.55. Back when I worked crap jobs it was already 6.75. I believe it's 7.50 now if not even higher.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Minimum wage is not 6.55. Back when I worked crap jobs it was already 6.75. I believe it's 7.50 now if not even higher.

Federal minimum wage.

 

[911paramedic]

Well, here's how bad it is. My brother-in-law is an architect, been with the firm for 15 years or so. They just announced that everybody making under $100K is getting a 20% pay cut, and over $150K a 50% cut. (not sure about those in the middle.)

It's almost like he could be making more than the owner before profit sharing.

(This is in the SF Bay Area, well established company. Brother-in-law is in a supervisory roll.)

It's getting rough out there...

 

[idiotekniQues]

Originally posted by: marvdmartian

Originally posted by: v1001
Bout time someone had the balls to do something.

Agreed. While I lived in CA (80's and early 90's), they were VERY good at spending more than they brought in, then upping taxes......then not having enough sense to keep within their means, and spending more than they brought in AGAIN!! Add to that the "temporary" taxes I saw introduced, which I'd be willing to bet have NOT gone away yet (close to 20 years later), and it's just been year after year (and politician after politician) that has been fiscally irresponsible. IMHO, to the point of criminal neglect of their constituents!

It's high time that someone in CA takes the reins and says enough is enough. Hopefully the next thing they'll do is tell their special interest groups to stuff it, we're listening to the PEOPLE from now on!

high time someone says enough is enough to whom?

arnold is punishing a lot of people that are not making that much money and need every penny, when this issue is more the fault of the upper management and legislators - instead he is punishing a bunch of lower and middle class workers.

of course some neanderthals cheer at this because they are terrible for this country. im sick of cavemen.

 

[olds]

Really?

 

[imported_Imp]

That must suck.

They should do something like that in my city. I got paid $20/hour as a bottom end summer student, and then they say they're over budget and need to raise taxes for the third time in a few years.

 

[BoomerD]

All the state employees so affected should just walk out...use sick leave, vacation pay, strike, whatever.
MOST of them are covered by union agreements/M.O.U.'s and this is a direct violation of said agreements. Ah-Nold is violating their contracts.
Let these workers shut down state operations for a week or two and see how fast Ah-Nold reverses course on this.

It's just bully-posturing to force the legislature to come up with a budget HE likes by hurting the working people who have nothing to do with any of the bullshit.

While no one likes more taxes, the legslature can only cut so much. It's time to raise the taxes on the wealthy, start charging them the same sales taxes on their expensive boats and such that they buy out of state to avoid paying the same sales tax rate I pay for new cars, time to eliminate some of the "gimmee's" that the wealthy demand (and get) from their Republican lap-dogs.

 

[rezinn]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Well, here's how bad it is. My brother-in-law is an architect, been with the firm for 15 years or so. They just announced that everybody making under $100K is getting a 20% pay cut, and over $150K a 50% cut. (not sure about those in the middle.)

It's almost like he could be making more than the owner before profit sharing.

(This is in the SF Bay Area, well established company. Brother-in-law is in a supervisory roll.)

It's getting rough out there...

So if you made 99k, you'll make 79,200 now. And if you made 151k you'll make 75,500. Mmm hmm.

 

[poncherelli2]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Well, here's how bad it is. My brother-in-law is an architect, been with the firm for 15 years or so. They just announced that everybody making under $100K is getting a 20% pay cut, and over $150K a 50% cut. (not sure about those in the middle.)

It's almost like he could be making more than the owner before profit sharing.

(This is in the SF Bay Area, well established company. Brother-in-law is in a supervisory roll.)

It's getting rough out there...

The guy making $149,999 made out like a bandit

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

First of all, they next paycheck isn't due until the end of August. So they wouldn't be getting the money with the $6.55 decrease until then. Second of all, they probably are going to pass the budget by then. I work for the State (I'm a student assistant). I'm not getting laid off or anything.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Really?

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