The California budget battle rages on.  SEIU members are offered special protection from the layoffs.

SEIU’s own staff isn’t getting special treatment in regard to internal layoffs.

GM prepares a 900 page restructuring plan. “But G.M.’s plan to shrink its way to profitability will not mean much without an agreement with the U.A.W.”

A new poll reveals America’s disagreement with EFCA:

Voters who are currently aware of the Employee Free Choice Act oppose it.

Of the 19% who have seen, read or heard something about the Employee Free Choice Act, almost half (49%) say they oppose the measure, while just one in three (33%) support it. Almost one in five (18%) say they are undecided.

A majority of both Republicans (76%) and Independents (50%) oppose the Act, while a little more than half of Democrats (54%) support it.