...isn't strictly my business, but this logic is striking.
The point of collective bargaining was, you might recall, that it would increase worker salaries. Here we see the governor denying firefighters a raise so that their union can try to get them a raise. He clearly thinks binding them to the union process will keep them on the reservation; if he cared about their salary, which was the whole point of collective bargaining to begin with, he'd just give them the raise that the legislature had already approved.
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In addition to the pseudo-logic Grim called out, I'm interested in Newsom's claim that giving the State firefighters a raise sufficient to make their pay somewhat less uncompetitive than their counterparts elsewhere in the State would create significant cost pressures for the state.
Cost pressures from the wages of roughly 3,000 firefighters on a State budget of nearly $240 million. Is Newsom confessing that his State is that near the edge of financial failure?
Eric Hines
I think he is. I know the state has been stretched very thin, and with the regional economy declining, I suspect the reserves are gone.
LittleRed1
It is entirely unsurprising that Newsome is running interference to protect the Union bosses. They're essentially democrat operatives. Reserves gone? Oh, they're playing a shell game at this point, and we're just waiting for the cups to slip and show that there is no ball. The state's Pension program is a time bomb just waiting to go off, an the counter is getting lower and lower...
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