Schwarzenegger Being Recalled

Mike Jimenez, president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, said that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a failure since the last governor, who was also recalled in 2003. Jimenez claimed that the union was seeking a recall vote against Schwarzenegger because its 300,000 some-odd members have gone two years without new labor contracts and "because Schwarzenegger didn't exempt its members from an executive order intended to reduce pay for tens of thousands of state employees to deal with the state's budget crisis. Many guards increase their salaries significantly with overtime." The union would need about one million signatures to put a recall vote on the ballot.

Schwarzenegger's executive order to reduce pay for some 175,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour has not taken effect because the state controller has refused to comply.*

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