Because their jobs are sooo secure

[Lloyd Danforth]

California public union OKs strike authorization


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's largest state employees' union voted on Saturday to approve a strike authorization measure to protest furloughs of state workers and pressure state officials to ratify its labor contract.

A spokesman for Service Employees International Union Local 1000 said a strike was not imminent but that the vote authorized union officers to initiate certain job actions, including a strike if necessary.

The SEIU represents about 95,000 state employees, including clerical workers and teachers.

The group's labor contract with the state expired last year, SEIU spokesman Jim Zamora said. The union negotiated a new deal with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration in February, but the contract has not been ratified by the state Legislature.

Earlier this week, the Republican governor signed a bill that closed a more than $24 billion budget gap. Under the legislation, furloughs will continue for state workers for three days a month, cutting their pay by 15 percent.

"We feel that he (Schwarzenegger) really undermined any kind of a contract deal by pushing these furloughs on folks," Zamora said.

The SEIU said the strike authorization was approved by 74 percent of its membership.

[Puke]

Unions for people that get paid through coercive force are so much bullshit.

[PattyLee loves dogs]

Oh no! Please don't go on strike and leave us in the briarpatch 

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[Lloyd Danforth]

Unions for people that get paid through coercive force are so much bullshit.

Yes, public sector unions have always seemed even more like 'thug gangs' than regular unions

[Little Owl]

Unions for people that get paid through coercive force are so much bullshit.

You can thank the "wonderful" John Kennedy for that.  He's the one who legalized allowing public employees to unionize.  Even Comrade FDR opposed public sector unions because he understood that it gave them too much power.

Public "services" only create demand through coercion.  We need a federal law that demands that any government sector on strike automatically loses its teeth.  So when the DMV goes on strike, licenses and registrations become unnecessary.  Don't force people to use government "services", then see how much people care when these parasites strike.  ("Oh no, I can't get a building permit that I no longer need!")

[Fluff and Stuff]

If the strike lasts 36 days, the will cover the furloughs and then the governor can just drop that and ask them to end the strike.

[AntonLee]

if we're lucky he won't ask them back. . . or anyone.