{"id":12032,"date":"2010-07-02T03:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T03:44:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-02T03:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T03:44:26","slug":"arnold-lashes-out-at-state-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/02\/arnold-lashes-out-at-state-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Lashes Out at State Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here he goes again&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law &#8212; $7.25 an hour for most state workers.<\/p>\n<p>The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 state workers in six bargaining units that recently came to tentative labor agreements with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/07\/01\/2864148\/schwarzenegger-orders-minimum.html#ixzz0sU5bEqvR\">Aac Bee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this necessary? Of course not. We are late every year. We aren&#8217;t hitting rock bottom on our cash reserves quite yet, and we could continue to fulfill our obligations. &nbsp;But this is within his power under a court ruling from a few years back, so he&#8217;s going to start early.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this money is going to be paid back once the budget, but this is for show anyway, right? Now, it&#8217;s Controller John Chiang&#8217;s play. &nbsp;Last time he tried this, the Controller refused, concerned about legal and technical ramifications.<\/p>\n<p>So, Controller Chiang, what say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here he goes again&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law &#8212; $7.25 an hour for most state workers.<\/p>\n<p>The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 state workers in six bargaining units that recently came to tentative labor agreements with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/07\/01\/2864148\/schwarzenegger-orders-minimum.html#ixzz0sU5bEqvR\">Aac Bee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this necessary? Of course not. We are late every year. We aren&#8217;t hitting rock bottom on our cash reserves quite yet, and we could continue to fulfill our obligations. &nbsp;But this is within his power under a court ruling from a few years back, so he&#8217;s going to start early.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this money is going to be paid back once the budget, but this is for show anyway, right? Now, it&#8217;s Controller John Chiang&#8217;s play. &nbsp;Last time he tried this, the Controller refused, concerned about legal and technical ramifications.<\/p>\n<p>So, Controller Chiang, what say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-117"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-384","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}