That is what a toddler could have done yesterday when I heard the news that a Thurston County Superior Court Judge told the SEIU and the WFSE, to paraphrase, to piss up a rope.
Like everywhere else that has been run by Democrats for decades, Washington State is facing a steep budget shortfall. The Governor told the state employee unions that because of htis, they’d have to hold off on their pay raises this year and possibly the next or face layoffs.
Of course, the unions being who they are, saw a an increase in the dues collected flying away and loosed their legal teams at Gregiore’s office.
Thankfully, the citizenry got the case decided on the side of sanity.
Gov. Chris Gregoire should have done things differently in negotiating with state employee unions, but her decision to shelve new contracts with the unions stands, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Anne Hirsch said Wednesday.
Gregoire confused the process when she had her budget director serve as both the negotiator and the person who later declared that contracts for raises and health benefits were financially unreasonable, the judge said.
But the governor does have the power to back out of contracts after the Oct. 1 deadline to finish talks, Hirsch said, noting the law separately requires the budget office to certify them as feasible.
The unions love “technicalities”. They love indecipherable language that can be turned six ways from Sunday to mean anything they want it to mean.
Finally, one for the little guy.