Utah governor signs collective bargaining ban for teachers, firefighters and police unions

[1srelluc]

Utah governor signs collective bargaining ban for teachers, firefighters and police unions

Utah’s Republican governor has signed a collective bargaining ban that experts are calling one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country, despite overwhelming opposition from union members.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah's Republican governor on Friday signed a collective bargaining ban that experts are calling one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country, despite overwhelming opposition from union members.

Beginning July 1, unions serving Utah teachers, firefighters, police officers, transit workers and other public employees will be banned from negotiating on their behalf for better wages and working conditions.

Gov. Spencer Cox announced his decision Friday evening following a week of rallies outside his office in which thousands of union members from the public and private sector urged him to veto the bill. The Republican-controlled Legislature had narrowly approved it last week after its sponsors abandoned a proposed compromise that would have removed the outright ban.


Government workers don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money.

When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers.

F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.” .... At least one thing I agreed with him on.

 

[Deadstick]

Utah governor signs collective bargaining ban for teachers, firefighters and police unions

Utah’s Republican governor has signed a collective bargaining ban that experts are calling one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country, despite overwhelming opposition from union members.

apnews.com

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah's Republican governor on Friday signed a collective bargaining ban that experts are calling one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country, despite overwhelming opposition from union members.

Beginning July 1, unions serving Utah teachers, firefighters, police officers, transit workers and other public employees will be banned from negotiating on their behalf for better wages and working conditions.

Gov. Spencer Cox announced his decision Friday evening following a week of rallies outside his office in which thousands of union members from the public and private sector urged him to veto the bill. The Republican-controlled Legislature had narrowly approved it last week after its sponsors abandoned a proposed compromise that would have removed the outright ban.


Government workers don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money.

When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers.

F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.” .... At least one thing I agreed with him on.

Pure Fascism, those politicians don't believe in Unions, i hope the Unions pick up the Gauntlet, Pinochet would be proud.

 

[1srelluc]

Pure Fascism, those politicians don't believe in Unions, i hope the Unions pick up the Gauntlet, Pinochet would be proud.

Meh, I guess they fucked around and found out.

 

[Deadstick]

Meh, I guess they fucked around and found out.

Fucked around with what? do you think putting workers rights back to the 19th century a good idea?

 

[AZrailwhale]

Pure Fascism, those politicians don't believe in Unions, i hope the Unions pick up the Gauntlet, Pinochet would be proud.

Private enterprise unions are fine, public employee union have a built in conflict of interest. One side of the negotiation represents the politicians/employers, the other side the employees. No one represents the taxpayers.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

You know what the job pays when you accept it.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Even the ultraliberal FDR thought public employee unions were an insane idea. Public employees are there to serve the taxpayers.

 

[Deadstick]

Private enterprise unions are fine, public employee union have a built in conflict of interest. One side of the negotiation represents the politicians/employers, the other side the employees. No one represents the taxpayers.

What makes you think Public sector workers are not tax payers?

 

[1srelluc]

Fucked around with what? do you think putting workers rights back to the 19th century a good idea?

27 states have laws prohibiting collective bargaining/strikes by public employee unions.

Make that 28 now.

 

[Deadstick]

You know what the job pays when you accept it.

Problem is some employers have a very bad habit of changing those conditions.

 

[Deadstick]

27 states have laws prohibiting collective bargaining/strikes by public employee unions.

Make that 28 now.

Well that doesn't surprise me in a Country like America no surprise at all.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Well that doesn't surprise me in a Country like America no surprise at all.

I just realized, you're a foreigner.

That explains volumes

 

[1srelluc]

Problem is some employers have a very bad habit of changing those conditions.

Well that doesn't surprise me in a Country like America no surprise at all.

I worked for the State of Virginia for 20 years and other than being skimpy with raises they never really changed-up much. If they did it only affected new hires. Loyalty was rewarded.

 

[Polishprince]

Governor Cox has a good point. The people the teachers would be striking against to win more money are little old ladies being forced to eat cat food in order to pay the extra taxes they are demanding.

It isn't like the teachers are confronting Henry Clay Frick or someone able to stand up to them.

And what makes it worse for the old ladies is that the governors are often in cahoots with the unions, so both sides of the union negotiations are in agreement that the old ladies need to be fucked over.

 

[pknopp]

The “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” protects two distinct rights: assembly and petition.

The right isn't going to be happy until they completely gut the Constitution.

 

[Deadstick]

I worked for the State of Virginia for 20 years and other than being skimpy with raises they never really changed-up much. If they did it only affected new hires. Loyalty was rewarded.

Well that's great if you have an employer who values you but these days some don't, i said before hire and fire is more common now sack people then rehire them on worse contracts, it happened with the seamen on P&O ferries they were sacked by text and told they would have to sign new contracts, i used those ferries and some of them had thirty years in with that company, anyone who think's that is acceptable should get their head tested.

 

[Scoutster]

 

[initforme]

What ametica wants is public employees working for free.

 

[Mack Brazile]

Good for Utah! Those ******* corrupt Police Unions hinder the firings of Officers who should not be on the Force.

 

[1srelluc]

Well that's great if you have an employer who values you but these days some don't, i said before hire and fire is more common now sack people then rehire them on worse contracts, it happened with the seamen on P&O ferries they were sacked by text and told they would have to sign new contracts, i used those ferries and some of them had thirty years in with that company, anyone who think's that is acceptable should get their head tested.

P&O is not a .gov entity....They hire and fire at their pleasure.

The history of P&O Ferries, which made 800 workers redundant, explained

The company has said its business isn't 'viable' and that these changes are needed for their survival

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