Who should pay?

"Brutalized by a merciless stock market, the pension fund for SLO County employees has lost hundreds of millions of dollars: The question of who should make up for those losses is in dispute. On one side sits the Deputy County Counsels’ Association—a small union representing some of the county government’s lawyers, which is threatening to file a lawsuit—and on the other sits the pension’s administrators, the county government, and most of the county’s employee unions"