Big things at the Supreme Court Monday, with oral arguments in a case that could do Seriously Bad Things to public sector unions. If the plaintiffs in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association win, unions representing public workers could "lose tens of millions of dollars and find their effectiveness diminished." Yeah,
Interesting .. my uncle was out in the dust bowl .. I have old postcards he sent to my gram. He is 93 ? and healthy .. As for your union .. no thanks .. That last union was enough for me.. It truly was a mafia owned and operated union hall ..
Maddening. I have acquaintances, a couple of Baptists, one a teacher and the other an employee of the Oklahoma Historical Society, government funded. Of course, they're Republicans.
The old craft unions have been conservative since the day of Gompers. My family was John L. Lewis Congress of Industrial Organizations, the lefty side. When Hoffa was head of the Teamsters, they endorsed Richard Nixon and the President of the AFL-CIO, George Meany, bragged he had never walked a picket line. When public employees began unionizing, the movement went to the left, where it belonged all along.
Unfortunately, DFR violations are a real and expensive thing for unions. Federal labor law mandates that in a bargaining unit all employees are entitled to equal representation regardless of dues paying status. This is a calculated way to use conflicting laws to break unions. Force us to represent, and deny us the ability to make membership compulsory, or to even charge fees.
I hope the unions file a suit challenging DFR, but the danger is that it could be used as a way to bring down the NLRB altogether in the current political climate.
I make it known that those in my shop are leeches. When they bitch about the contract, I tell them to join and show up and vote at meetings. That shuts them up. Inevitably the employees the unions spend the most defending, are the ones that don't pay dues.
But DFR, gotta work for the rats on the raft same as the paying passengers.
DFR certainly is an issue, but there are so so many ways to deliberately screw over a teacher that don't violate the contract, can't really be pinned down, and only the teacher and the person screwing them over might notice. "Bad luck" and "carelessness" and "gee it just worked out that way" can cover a lot of territory and are often only visible to those with inside knowledge..
I've been in unions - they were not mafia owned, and I received decent wages and benefits that were the envy or those I had left behind when I changed jobs. Your language is designed to ddmonize unions by implying they are all backed by "mafia" and no good. You may speak for yourself, but not for others.
private sector union membership has declined over? 30-40 years form around 30% to about 6-7% currently, wages are stagnant (wonder why) and now the wealthy elites are going after public sector unions. Maybe the corporations think other nations will make up the deficit when americans have no money to spend on their goods. Union membership helped me pay my bills and take care of my family, and I was the envy of those who stayed behind in their low-paying, low-benefited jobs.
They're backed by the CIR: Center for Individual Rights, whose name should tell you what they're about. Individual rights never got anyone anywhere in the old days; that's why unions started in the first place. She is basically un-American and someone who expects something for nothing.
PERS You're in Washington.
I love these anecdotal stories. Given your previous bull shit, I'll just file this one as more bull shit.
We're done.
Interesting .. my uncle was out in the dust bowl .. I have old postcards he sent to my gram. He is 93 ? and healthy .. As for your union .. no thanks .. That last union was enough for me.. It truly was a mafia owned and operated union hall ..
Maddening. I have acquaintances, a couple of Baptists, one a teacher and the other an employee of the Oklahoma Historical Society, government funded. Of course, they're Republicans.
Jebus strikes again.
The old craft unions have been conservative since the day of Gompers. My family was John L. Lewis Congress of Industrial Organizations, the lefty side. When Hoffa was head of the Teamsters, they endorsed Richard Nixon and the President of the AFL-CIO, George Meany, bragged he had never walked a picket line. When public employees began unionizing, the movement went to the left, where it belonged all along.
Wow, did you time-travel from 1961 or something? Sorry to say the Cubs still haven't won a World Series and there aren't flying cars or moon colonies.
Unfortunately, DFR violations are a real and expensive thing for unions. Federal labor law mandates that in a bargaining unit all employees are entitled to equal representation regardless of dues paying status. This is a calculated way to use conflicting laws to break unions. Force us to represent, and deny us the ability to make membership compulsory, or to even charge fees.
I hope the unions file a suit challenging DFR, but the danger is that it could be used as a way to bring down the NLRB altogether in the current political climate.
I make it known that those in my shop are leeches. When they bitch about the contract, I tell them to join and show up and vote at meetings. That shuts them up. Inevitably the employees the unions spend the most defending, are the ones that don't pay dues.
But DFR, gotta work for the rats on the raft same as the paying passengers.
DFR certainly is an issue, but there are so so many ways to deliberately screw over a teacher that don't violate the contract, can't really be pinned down, and only the teacher and the person screwing them over might notice. "Bad luck" and "carelessness" and "gee it just worked out that way" can cover a lot of territory and are often only visible to those with inside knowledge..
Which is why the Cons use the same attacks against unions as they do the Federal government: they're evil 'cuz they help black people.
they do have a plan - burn it down to the ground, scorched earth
I've been in unions - they were not mafia owned, and I received decent wages and benefits that were the envy or those I had left behind when I changed jobs. Your language is designed to ddmonize unions by implying they are all backed by "mafia" and no good. You may speak for yourself, but not for others.
You can't think your way out of a box - your only talking point is to generalize about things and hope?: others will fall for the spew.
private sector union membership has declined over? 30-40 years form around 30% to about 6-7% currently, wages are stagnant (wonder why) and now the wealthy elites are going after public sector unions. Maybe the corporations think other nations will make up the deficit when americans have no money to spend on their goods. Union membership helped me pay my bills and take care of my family, and I was the envy of those who stayed behind in their low-paying, low-benefited jobs.
They're backed by the CIR: Center for Individual Rights, whose name should tell you what they're about. Individual rights never got anyone anywhere in the old days; that's why unions started in the first place. She is basically un-American and someone who expects something for nothing.
Well, that's the trend in some parts of the country these days; guess she wants to join them.