California's government is in a state of civil war. The battlegrounds: courtrooms from San Francisco to Sacramento. The fight: furloughs.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration spent $228,000 on furlough litigation as part of an eight-month contract that ended in June with Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, a Sacramento-based law firm. Click here to read article
Jerry Brown, John Chiang & Gavin Newsom Top Leaders Speak to AFSCME 2620 Members at San Jose Convention
San Francisco Chronicle
Matthew Yi, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
A missed deadline worsened California's budget crisis Wednesday by $2 billion - and now, the fiscal hole will deepen by millions each day that a solution is not passed.
If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators fail to balance the budget within a month, the state's deficit will likely grow by another billion, said Mike Genest, director of the Department of Finance. Click here to read article
San Francisco Chronicle
Matthew Yi, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
"The governor has made us into budget scapegoats," said Nancy Swindell, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees AFL-CIO ...
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"American Federal of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2620 President Nancy Swindell said her union's 5000 state health service employees have ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer
"When you talk about something going off the cliff, you have to look at who is going to fall on the rocks below," she said. "Those are my members. Those are the people I represent." Click here to read article
This week, SEIU’s state council has opened a campaign account to oppose Proposition 1A, the measure backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would keep taxes on the books for three extra years in exchange for limiting state spending in future years. But the union has not ruled out the possibility that they could give money to support a $5 billion lottery measure on the same ballot also supported by Schwarzenegger...
The May 19 ballot measure would create a spending cap and rainy day reserve to slow the growth of California government. It isn't 'a cynical trick' to raise taxes, columnist George Skelton writes...
Capitol Bureau colleague Kevin Yamamura has this story about the opposition building against Prop 1A, including the 700,000-member Service Employees International Union's California State Council ...
A rift has developed in one of California’s most influential labor organizations over the budget-linked propositions on the May 19 ballot that are intended to erase billions of dollars worth of red ink ...
AFSCME 2620 President Nancy Swindell said, "We recognize the initiatives are far from perfect, but the alternative is far worse." You can read more of what ...
