In a decision with wide-ranging implications for millions of union workers nationwide, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that, in most cases, nurses with minimal managerial duties can be considered supervisors and are therefore ineligible for union membership.

SAN FRANCISCO - The bill is coming due for years of generous benefits bestowed upon state, county, city and school employees, and it's a stunner: hundreds of billions of dollars over the next three decades, threatening some local governments with bankruptcy and all but guaranteeing cuts in education, public safety and other services.

ACSS knows many of you are angry!  Six years without a raise, and now you feel insulted that this governor has given his leaders -- YOU -- the same as rank and file: 3.5% and a one-time $1000 bonus. Your subordinates don't have the pressures and thankless responsibilities that you do as you run the programs, oversee the personnel and provide necessary government services to California's citizens.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006, that includes a provision added in the waning days of the legislative session allowing his administration to nearly double the pay of 50 top state bosses.

DPA has just announced that the excluded pay program will be extended to CEAs (Levels 1-4). Their maximum salary range will be adjusted by 3.5%, retroactive to July 1, 2006. They will also receive the one-time $1,000 bonus.