The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) took legal action today with respect to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Executive Order S-09-08 of yesterday that eliminated some 22,000 temporary and part-time state employees and cut the pay for approximately 200,000 regular employees to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until the state budget is passed. SEIU Local 1000 filed a petition and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief in Sacramento County Superior Court. It also filed an unfair practice charge with the California Public Employment Relations Board.