Without a Budget Deal Schwarzenegger Will Lay Off 20K Tomorrow

From SacBee:

With budget negotiations still hung up in the Senate, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to send 20,000 layoff warnings to state workers Tuesday morning.

Schwarzenegger will instruct his Department of Personnel Administration to give agencies lists of people affected — those with the least seniority among the approximately 100,000 state workers employed at General Fund units. [Read More]

Good riddance, that’s around $20 million the unions won’t have to screw the state.