 union greed drives california to bankruptcy you may have heard about a city in california that is filing for bankruptcy stockton california offered its employees absurd pensions and benefits for years and now finds itself unable to meet these unsustainable obligations as a result stockton s citizens have faced cutbacks to public programs while the unions have been allowed to protect their outrageous pay levels will the city get away with ignoring the real driver of its indebtedness and more importantly will the citizens of stockton stand for it get the details  reasoncom archives 20130329 uniongreeddrivescaliforniabankruptcy 