The Glade 4.0

Micheal:

When you bargain collectively you are part of a collective. How some dissenting members might feel matters not a whit.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

In reality we are losing people that can retire, but didn't necessarily want to yet. One woman I work with ran the numbers and decided with the cuts the Governor is imposing she would be losing money to keep working and retired two years before she had planned to. With her goes a wealth of 'corporate' knowledge that would have been transferred to her successor at a saner time.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

As i said, I don't think their protest will come to anything, and at this point it is just talk. These are most likely the people that seem to petition for grievances against their Union every contract negotiation. The group regularly tries to create a new Union to usurp the current one, a Union they would be in charge of - which fails every time. For the most part they are Fair Share members, not true union members.

In California you don't have to be a Union member to work for the State in Union Represented positions, but you do have to pay your Fair Share. Fair Share is a horrible concept where you have money (less than the Union dues, but not much less) go to the union whether you want it to or not. This pays for the non-Union members to be collectively bargained for, whether they want it or not.

I understand their dissent. I do not choose to join it.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

The legislature not passing a budget is a foregone conclusion with the rules they have in place. California has extremely liberal cities and pretty conservative rural areas, there's no way these two groups are going to cooperate enough to get a 66% majority to pass a budget.

That would be a valid thought X, except for the fact that they, you know, pass a budget.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Maybe we can see a break up of California, budgets passed to the country level.

Orange County: ok tightened up, spending less.
San Fran: Tax Tax Tax! SPENNNNNDDD
LA: We have adopted a road warrior/social Darwinism approach to city matters.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

LOL you made me do a spit-take!

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Welcome to civil court

TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Pelosi Rules Barter Town!

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore