Ahnold The Anti-Unionator

By GottaLaff

I'll be so glad when I don't have this jerk as my governor any more. Meanwhile, he's doing his best to run the unions into the ground:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has put organized labor squarely in his cross-hairs in 2010, opening a fight that will largely determine the shape of his final year in office.

Schwarzenegger's proposals would cut the size of the union workforce, reduce pay, shrink future pensions and roll back job protections won through collective bargaining.

Of course, that means that, by weakening organized labor, he would also be reducing their ability to buy elections, unlike Big Biz, Big Pharma, Big Oil, China Inc., Osama Bin Laden Inc., Inc. Inc....

Among the plans in the governor's budget: privatize prisons, which would strip members from the influential guards union; curtail seniority protections for teachers, a key union-won protection; and reduce the number of sick, disabled and elderly Californians cared for through the state's In-Home Supportive Services program -- almost all union jobs -- while cutting what their caregivers are paid.

Schwarzenegger also wants to permanently lower state workforce salaries by 5% without returning to the bargaining table with public-sector unions. And he would require state workers to chip 5% more into their retirement plans.

The Anti-Unionator: A man of the people.