claim: jerry brown "gave california state employees collective bargaining powers" and "now, state employees can retire at 55 with much of their salary for life."
author: meg whitman
evidence_1: sep 28, 2016 ... joseph graham "gray" davis, former governor of california, speaks to members  of ... signed a 1999 bill hiking pensions if he knew then what he knows now. ....  officers could retire at 50 and receive as much as 90% of their peak pay for ...  this year, state employee pensions will cost taxpayers $5.4 billion, ...
evidence_2: dec 30, 2016 ... yet taxpayers pay a steep price to fund bonus pensions and other ... the  california public employees' retirement system (calpers) — and a ... a  combined pension of more than $250,000 per year, state and city records show.  ... then, and i have to admit that i make too much money now, but what can i do?
evidence_3: jan 26, 2016 ... then in 1978, then-governor jerry brown signed an executive order that imposed  union-shop collective bargaining on public agencies in california, ... of the csea  (california state employees association), who each pay ... so at age 50, a 20- year veteran can retire with a pension equivalent to 60% of their ...
evidence_4: new york, michigan, california, washington, and many other states also find ....  to admit as true that government employees have power to halt or check the ...  another common objection to collective bargaining with public-employee unions  .... corrections officers can also retire with 90% of their salaries as early as age  50.
evidence_5: apr 19, 2010 ... state workers routinely retire at 55 with pensions higher than their base pay for  most of their working life. ... the story starts half a century ago, when california  public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to ... public-safety  unions, and the service employees international union, which now ...