CA: Furlough Days Overturned For 6,000+ State Workers

[Kadie]

Sep 10, 2009 12:29 pm US/Pacific
Furlough Days Overturned For 6,000+ State Workers

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS13) ― A San Francisco Superior court judge has officially overturned unpaid furlough days for the more than 6,000 state employees.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlotte Walter Woolard ruled in favor of the employees earlier this month and today issued her final ruling. The exempt employees work for the State Compensation Insurance Fund and are represented by SEIU Local 1000.

The Union is now attempting to get back pay with interest for those members who have now been ruled exempt.

http://cbs13.com/breakingnews/furlough.days.overturned.2.1175779.html

[tularetom]

1. And the taxpayers will wind up paying for der titzengroper's grandstand play

We should have recalled that piece a shit when we had the opportunity.

I hope their lawsuit succeeds.

[gratuitous]

2. More special rights for union workers! It's unamerican!

The subject is riffing on a Labor Day post here at DU, wherein someone wrote a letter to the editor of a local paper, whining about how the union people in his open shop got certain benefits that he and his fellow non-union workers didn't get. Instead of spurring the writer to think about how he, too, could get into a union and bargain collectively for benefits, he was puling about "special rights."

No, this is what happens when working people stick together: They secure their rights and hold onto them against the caprices of management. If there's a dispute, there's written language in a contract that a judge can read to decide who is right, and order the non-complying party to honor its obligations under the contract.

[taught_me_patience]

3. Bad move on the union's part.

I hope they are preparing for major layoffs.