May 21, 2013 By Sagar Jethani After being threatened with contempt by a panel of federal judges for failing to sufficiently reduce the number of prisoners in California's jails, Gov. Jerry Brown reluctantly unveiled a plan this month to further reduce the Golden State's overcrowded prisons ...
Posts Tagged ‘unions’California’s prison guards lock up reformsTuesday, May 21st, 2013CA inmate reduction plan shuns out-of-state prisons, other optionsThursday, May 9th, 2013May 9, 2013 By Katy Grimes You've heard of the Millionaire Next Door? Now meet the Criminal Next Door. In what appears to be a nod to the powerful prison guards union, California is shunning sending prison inmates to lower cost, out-of-state prisons to reduce the overcrowded prison populati... Vindictive Obamacare bills speeding through LegislatureThursday, May 9th, 2013May 9, 2013 By Katy Grimes It's always good to see the California Legislature proposing more vindictive bills aimed at penalizing employers. The new "Walmart loophole" bill, AB 880, would require large employers to "pay their fair share when they dump workers onto Medi-Cal by cutting ho... Obama economist: Wal-Mart a ‘progressive force,’ not anti-poorFriday, May 3rd, 2013 May 3, 2013 By Chris Reed As Dan Walters notes, unions are once again pushing for onerous new restrictions on Wal-Mart selling groceries in California, and once again Gov. Jerry Brown will have to end up playing the role of Mr. Sanity by vetoing a bill carried by Assemblyman Roger Hernández, ... Unions kill teacher evaluation billFriday, May 3rd, 2013May 3, 2013 By Katy Grimes For most parents in California, education is a nonpartisan issue. But too many of the state’s elected politicians, who claim to represent all constituents, accept teachers union campaign contributions -- and lots of them. This makes education very political.... Pattern developing in reform bill killingsThursday, May 2nd, 2013May 2, 2013 By Katy Grimes It's the first day of May. If you haven't noticed, the California Democratic Supermajority is killing all reform efforts. And the targets are not just Republican bills. Just yesterday, the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality killed a bill which would have ... Facts refute union objections to compensation analysisMonday, April 29th, 2013April 29, 2013 By Ed Ring “Jennifer Muir, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Employees’ Association, which represents more than 18,000 public employees in Orange County, said the California Public Policy Center’s study was a politically motivated attack on public employees and unions. As... LAT’s Steve Lopez: Pension crisis real — not unions’ fault. Huh?Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 April 24, 2013 By Chris Reed The unsustainability of the public employee pension system in California has been obvious for at least six or seven years to anyone who understood two simple facts: the demographics of our aging government workforce and the irrationality of CalPERS' argument in 199... In coming CA fracking war, will unions be Oxy’s surprise ally?Sunday, April 21st, 2013April 21, 2013 By Chris Reed The coming battle over fracking in California is going to be a doozy. There's too much money to be made in the "brown energy" revolution for monied interests to not pursue the reserves in the Monterey Shale. Soon to be the face of evil in California: Occidental ... |