Members of the California Association of

Members of the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians and their supporters protest outside Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California on March 19, 2010 to draw attention to state budget cuts that they say have forced employees in state hospitals to work without pay. The psychiatric nurses and aids say that unlike the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and other state angencies which can close on furlough days, state pyschiatric hospitals are staffed 24 hours a day and can not close, forcing the nurses to work for free on days their three furlough days each months.. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)