Min Wage for CA Employees

Once again, the state employees are getting screwed.

State workers' pay can be cut to the federal minimum wage when lawmakers miss California's annual budget deadline, a Sacramento Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled.

Assuming the ruling stands, it's a win for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a fight that started last summer when Controller John Chiang refused to cut paychecks that paid about 200,000 hourly state workers $6.55 per hour, the federal minimum. Exempt or salaried employees would get $455 a week.

So while the republicans work on ways to steal away their retirements...they have found a way to strip away state employees pay, any time their party decides to hold up the budget. One more reason we must repeal 2/3rds and replace it with a simple majority vote.

Why anybody would want to work for the State of California at this point is beyond me. Unfortunately, in this economy there is no where else to go.