Posts Tagged ‘Monopoly Bargaining’
County declines to bargain with AFSCME for now
After passage of Wisconsin Act 10,Columbia County officials have agreed they have no mandate to bargain with the former exclusive representative, AFSCME. County officials, it seems, are finding it effective to sit down and talk with their employees, instead of working with union negotiators until the union is recertified as the sole representative, and County…
Read MoreKansas Union Members Are Still Getting a Bum Deal
Big Labor’s power in many states is so great it can make the government do its bidding, and make it virtually impossible for workers to resign their union membership. Even in Kansas, a Right to Work State, where workers have the freedom to refrain from union support of membership, union bosses have rigged an agreement…
Read MoreCourt gives Simon Campbell access to salaries for state college professors
Simon Campbell, founder and president of stopteacherstrikes.org, union boss crtitic, and Pennsbury school board member, wins a battle for the public, requesting information about the negotiation process at Pennsylvnia universities. An independent futures trader, Simon caught the “fever in the belly” when his daughters’ school was shut down over a strike. Phillyburbs.com has the story. Commonwealth Court has…
Read MoreFirefighters’ labor dispute reaches absurd low
It is normal for union bosses to ask for more and more and more, not only for their members, but for themselves. But pushing the envelope in Right to Work Nevada, just didn’t seem to make sense in this case, where employees are offered a bonus that union bosses don’t want them to have. Here…
Read MoreNew York City Union Officials Fiddle While Their Members Must Be Burning
Another example of union bosses’ contempt for their rank and file: Many teachers depend upon their union officials to negotiate on their behalf, and are left high and dry while union officials party and live a life of luxury. Carl Campanile and Yoav Gonen have the story in the New York Post: While city public-school…
Read MorePennsylvania Union Officials Block Simon Campbell’s Right to Know
As Pennsylvania citizens work to pass a Right to Work law, the Pennsylvania State Education Association makes a show of their absolute power over Pennsylvania teachers, citizens and taxpayers. Exercising his rights as a taxpaying citizen, Stopteacherstrikes.org President Simon Campbell, was stopped in his tracks by union officials and their power. Simon tells his story…
Read MoreMichigan Governor Snyder Curbs Detroit Union Bosses’ Power
Michigan Governor Snyder’s passage of a bill allowing an emergency manager to be appointed,curbs Big Labor’s monopoly bargaining power. Chad Livengood and Sean D. Lewis have the story in the Detroit News: The new law is called Public Act 436 of 2012. Emergency managers would have the ability to reject, modify or terminate labor union…
Read MoreCalifornia’s Monopoly Bargaining Debacle
It has long been suspected that California government employee unions wield enormous power, with glittering, golden retirement plans. Ivan Osorio analyzes a report by Bloomberg reporters on openmarket.org. This isn’t a case of a handful of isolated incidents. The team of Bloomberg reporters found a pattern of fiscal irresponsibility characterized by: â– Lack of control in…
Read MoreMonopoly Bargaining and Ilinois’ Eve of Destitution
Paul Kersey, Illinois Policy Institute, explores the consequences of Illinois government union employee bargaining laws and how it will hamstring the government attempting to keep costs reined in. Like an insidious leak, eventually government employee union monopoly bargaining will destroy the government’s ability to govern. So, the health benefit law allows – indeed calls for…
Read MoreWorkers Should Not Be Forced to Accept a Union’s Services
Unelected Unions: Why Workers Should Be Allowed to – InsiderOnline Well-intentioned critics of teacher union officials often complain that they favor the interests of educators over those of schoolchildren. For several reasons, this is a flawed line of attack. The key problem is its underlying assumption, shared by apologists for Big Labor control over…
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