This originally ran as an
Op-Ed in the East Bay Times, Friday, August 12.
As the Legislature closes in on the end of this two-year
legislative cycle, we’d like to shed some light on a particularly
onerous bill that, if passed, will cost $350 million annually to
taxpayers without providing any discernible benefit to employees,
only the unions that represent them. AB 2835 by Assembly Member
Jim Cooper is a solution in search of a problem.
