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State Sentinel- Tuesday, January 26, 1999 AS Union puts Davis on strike notice By DOUG WILLIS The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Describing Gov. Gray Davis' pay raise promises as inadequate, California's biggest state employee union announced Monday it has authorized a strike by its 82,000 members if negotiations with Davis are not successful. Davis spokesman Michael Busta-mante said he was not familiar with the announcement and other representatives would be preparing a response. The action by the California State Employees Association is a sharp departure from the conciliatory tone which the union, whose members have not had raises in four years, has taken over the past two months. CSEA spokesmen refrained from criticizing Davis in early December, when he said he would take all but percent of a 26 percent gubernatorial pay raise which he had described as "unthinkable" before his election.

And CSEA remained supportive earlier this month when Davis said that he was setting aside $190 million in his budget, enough for an average pay raise of about 2.5 percent, and said he hoped there would be more money for bigger raises when state revenue figures are revised in May. But CSEA issued a written statement Monday which quoted Jim Hard and other union leaders taking a much more confrontational tone. Jur members are very impatient They had broken promises from the past governor and an inadequate commitment from Gov. Davis. It's time for the people who do the work to move to the front'of the line," Hard said in the union's statement.

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"I haven't seen snow in the Central Valley here since the late 1960s," Visalia CHP Officer Carrol Barker said after the California Department of Transportation snow-plows rolled by. "I was surprised, you bet." Six inches of snow fell on Bakers-field's 200,000 residents. An inch had fallen in Fresno by midmorning. But then, it snowed in Fresno just before Christmas. "I guess we're getting used to it by now," laughed CHP dispatcher Esther Molina in Fresno.

Melting snow turned into a dirty slush by noon. Travel was a nightmare through the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and south through Los Angeles and on to the Mexican 'jorder. The Bakersfield CHP handled 75 crashes Monday, which compares to about six crashes on a dry day, Wimbish said. A 100-mile stretch of Interstate 5, from Kettleman City to the north and Castaic in the south, was off limits because of the snow until noon, when the highway reopened. Highway 58 linking Bakersfield and the Mojave Desert was closed for a time, as were Highways 78, 166 and 46.

By MATTHEW Yl The Associated Press BAKERS FIELD There was a 'snowman in every yard and snow-plows most people didn't know existed. There were massive traffic snarls, power outages and then the slush. There hasn't been any measur-. able snow in Bakersfield in nearly 25 years March 8, 1974. But Monday brought 6 inches of snow to the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley.

"The adults were as excited if not more than the kids because they got "up first," said Colleen Galvan, a six-year resident. "I woke the kids up about 7 a.m. and they just put their snow stuff on over their jammies and I couldn't get them back in." David, 6, and Jordan, 7, finally came back in about 9:30 a.m. when it got too wet, their mom said. Their Israel Galvan, who got up at ,4:30 a.m.

to work on the Cross Valley oil pipeline, was told not to report to the job. "It's crazy out there. People are in 4-wheel-drive Suburbans towing snowboarders down the street. I've never seen anything like it," said Officer Mack Wimbish of the California Highway Patrol. Snowball battles were common and nearly every house had a front-yard snowman, complete with scarf, cap, branches for arms and a twig for a nose.

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