r/news • u/IchTanze • 11h ago

California state workers launching 1-day strike over return-to-office mandate, pay and healthcare

https://apnews.com/article/california-state-workers-strike-newsom-a3a4f547a612a68360e75e7feaaffb96
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u/DamnitRuby 8h ago

Unlike other places where a union protects your right to strike, civil servants here do not have that right. We can be fined and I union leaders can be jailed. So no, we are not "allowed" to strike. We certainly could, but convincing the 200k people or whatever the state workforce is to strike and potentially lose their job. That's exactly what happened to 2000 corrections officers last year.

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u/mothandravenstudio 7h ago

They’re saying do it anyway. There is no law that can’t be overwhelmed by numbers.