So they might be able to have quite some impact by lobbying and voting as a block, but they are not a big enough body to swing votes against a meaningful majority.
(your link states that union has ~31,000 members, California had about 17.5 million registered voters in the Nov 2014 election)
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/correctional-offic...
So they might be able to have quite some impact by lobbying and voting as a block, but they are not a big enough body to swing votes against a meaningful majority.
(your link states that union has ~31,000 members, California had about 17.5 million registered voters in the Nov 2014 election)