By: K Hughes

K Hughes — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:53:40 +0000

I’m a nurse, the Governor destroyed our BRN board, siting articles from the LA Times that bad nurses were still practicing nursing. But the articles failed to point out that the Attorney General’s office and other depts that assist the BRN in disciplining nurses were also to blame for the delays. Now we have a new board, it seems to be working despite the fact that 90% of its members were appointed by Arnold. But the BRN still can’t get court dates from the AG’s office so these nurses can have due process and their licenses revoked if needed. Not to mention that the BRN is a self funded board, it’s financed through our renewal fees and the BRN pays for all the work being done by other dept and boards needed to get it’s work done. We asked for those working on BRN issues to be exempt from furloughs, since it didn’t impact the state budget, but no…thus slowing down the process again. Arnold doesn’t want the BRN to pay for work being done, because that leaves more money in the BRN reserve for him to ‘borrow’ from. Voted for Chiang, plan on voting and campaigning for him again, someone has to stand up to the terminator!! Keep up the great work John!

By: pad

pad — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:58:56 +0000

Wow, could your article be more biased? What McLear (correct spelling ) conveniently forgets is that the Gov is choosing to exempt certain groups of employees who have tentative agreements with him, even if those tentative agreements have not been ratified and no appropriation made for their full salaries. (Agreements that were bargained under threats and extortion.) Or the convenience of omitting that the actual ruling states the Gov “may” not “shall” pay federal minimum wage? This a purely a political ploy on the part of the Gov and state workers are being used as pawns.
Did McLear also tell you that he received a $17, 000 raise before the furloughs were implemented (as did most of the Gov’s staff)? Most state workers have received two raises in the last 11 years for a combined total of 8.4%. State workers do not receive COLAs and they have lost 14.62% (that puts us in the negative) for the last 18 months. Now we are being threatened with more.
Did you even read the ruling? There is a portion that speaks to feasibility. The Gov and McLear are very aware that the state’s payroll system can’t do what they are asking of the Controller. You want to drag John Chiang over the coals and state his is defying the Gov and the judicial system. What about the court rulings and statutes that Arnold has ignored and twisted? Just as Arnold has and continues to use the judicial system to file frivolous lawsuits and appeals, are you implying John doesn’t have the right to due process?
While I understand that many have lost jobs in the private sector, they are plenty who have not. If there is no money, why is the state still hiring? Why didn’t Arnold implement a hiring free? Some of the reasoning behind the hate toward state workers is on par with, “I lost my job or had my salary cut so you should too.” It’s like the mentality of crabs in a bucket; “if I can’t pull myself up, I’m going to make sure you don’t get out either”. With that type of reasoning we all lose in the end.

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