Walker: State workers should not be pawns in budget fight (Capitol Weekly)
By Yvonne Walker
State employees know first-hand that the budget crisis is real and we are anxious do our part to get things right. The fact is that everyone needs to bring their A-game to the table and be ready to do their part if California is going to weather this crisis. We cannot balance this budget with imbalanced sacrifices.
State employees know first-hand that the budget crisis is real and we are anxious do our part to get things right. The fact is that everyone needs to bring their A-game to the table and be ready to do their part if California is going to weather this crisis. We cannot balance this budget with imbalanced sacrifices.
The governor should not, as he has done in the past, use state workers as pawns in this budget crisis and threaten to - or worse - take state workers down to minimum wage. Everyone involved should take the budget crisis seriously and not play games with the lives of state workers. We have shown that we are willing to be part of a constructive solution, like we did in 2009 when we agreed to a contract that would have saved the state $350 million.
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