Minimum Wage for State Employees

Michael Krasny

Jul 8, 2010 at

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has filed a lawsuit aimed at forcing State Controller John Chiang to pay hourly state employees the federal minimum wage until lawmakers approve a budget. What would minimum wage mean for those 200,000 workers, and for California?

Guests:

Aaron McLear, press secretary for Governor Schwarzenegger

John Myers, KQED's Sacramento bureau chief

Yvonne Walker, president of the SEIU Local 1,000, which represents 95,000 California state workers

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