Mr. Schmitt said he would seek wage freezes next year for all county employees.
But their earnings are being attacked, their pensions are being attacked and wages frozen.
New York City has demanded wage freezes from nearly 300,000 municipal workers.
Indeed, during Mr. Acker's first four years at Pan Am, the company persuaded the airline's five unions to take pay cuts and wage freezes that amounted to more than $300 million.
A minimum wage that's been frozen for seven years.
He tried, unsuccessfully, to get a major pay raise for his new Cabinet officers, when other state employees have had their wages frozen for two years, raising charges that he was too upper class.
Pension plans became popular in the United States during World War II, when wage freezes prohibited outright increases in workers' pay.
Bob Ford, alawyer representing the employers, said that even with the wage freeze the janitors would be the highest paid in California.
Mayor Bloomberg has warned the unions that they face wage freezes unless they agree to major productivity savings to finance any pay increases.
The two contracts call for wage freezes in the first two years, then raises of 4 percent, 2 percent and 2 percent.